• Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supremo N.Chandrababu Naidu was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh for the fourth term on June 12. 

• The ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, senior BJP leaders and Union Ministers. 

• Janasena chief and actor Pawan Kalyan, Nara Lokesh — son of Naidu, among others, took oath as ministers. 

• Andhra Pradesh Governor S.Abdul Nazeer administered the oath to Naidu and others. 

• The NDA comprising TDP, BJP and Janasena won a landslide victory in the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the state with a huge majority of 164 out of the total 175 Assembly and 21 out of the total 25 Lok Sabha seats. 

• Naidu retained his Kuppam constituency while Pawan Kalyan and Lokesh won from Pithapuram and Mangalagiri assembly segments in the polls.

• The Pawan Kalyan-led party has got three and BJP one berth in the 25-member present cabinet. 

• As per the strength of Andhra Pradesh assembly (175), the Cabinet can have 26 ministers, including the Chief Minister. 

Who is Chandrababu Naidu?

• The veteran politician is credited for turning Hyderabad, the capital of undivided Andhra Pradesh, into a technology and computer software hub.

• Born on April 20, 1950, at Naravaripalli in the Chittoor district of undivided Andhra Pradesh, Nara Chandrababu Naidu started his political career on the student politics platform at Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati.

• Following that solid foundation, Naidu (74) joined the Congress party and went on to become a Cabinet minister.

• However, he later jumped ship to the TDP, founded by his late father-in-law and legendary actor N.T. Rama Rao. 

• Naidu first became the chief minister in 1995 and went on to have another two terms as CM.

• During the late 90s, Naidu played a key role in forming the central government of that time and the first NDA government formed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee was supported from outside by the TDP.

• His first two terms as Chief Minister began in 1995 and ended in 2004, nine years at a stretch while the third term came post-bifurcation of the state. Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh in 2014.

• In 2014, Naidu emerged as the first Chief Minister of the state of Andhra Pradesh and served it until 2019.

• In his third term as CM, he championed Amaravati to be the capital city of the southern state, but losing power left his brainchild as an unfulfilled promise.

• In 2019, he suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Jagan Mohan Reddy of the YSR Congress Party.

• In 2021, protesting some comments made against his family members in the Assembly, Naidu walked out of the assembly and said he would come back only as the state Chief Minister again.

• In 2023 he was arrested under the Skill Development Corporation Scam case by the YSRCP government.

• After the pre-dawn arrest on September 9, Naidu spent nearly two months in the Rajamahendravaram central jail.

• However, an interim bail on October 31, which was made absolute on November 20, set Naidu free to prepare for the 2024 polls, enabling him to join the BJP-led NDA alliance along with Janasena.

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