Thousands of satyagrahis and leaders like Sarojini Naidu joined him.

In 1996 Barnala once again came close to becoming Prime Minister. In 1996 General Elections with no political party getting mandate it was a good time for a regional party to have its Prime Minister. Regional Parties accounted about 80 MP's in the Lok Sabha The Assam Gana Parishad of Praful Kumar Mahanta and TDP of Chandra Babu Naidu including The Left parties zeroed on Barnala but last minute Barnala's parent party SAD led by Barnala's supposedly close friend Parkash Singh Badal without informing Barnala joined hands with the BJP hence Barnala yet again missed being Prime Minister.

He joined Bharatiya Janata party in 2004 in a ceremony headed by ( party ) president Venkiah Naidu.

When that magazine closed down, Davidar joined a features magazine called Keynote which was edited by the distinguished poet Dom Moraes, and his actress wife, Leela Naidu.

Nara Chandrababu Naidu ( born 20 April 1950, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh ) is the President of Telugu Desam Party ( TDP ), a regional party in the southern India state of Andhra Pradesh from 1996.

Just nine months before the scheduled general elections, NTR floated a regional party Telugu Desam Party ( TDP ) and was said to have invited Naidu to join the party, but Naidu stuck to the Congress party and contested again from Chandragiri constituency against a rival TDP candidate Venkatarama Naidu.

Naidu slowly started to become a second power centre in the TDP and was believed to be building his own group in the party.

Telugu Desam Party ( TDP ) led by Mr. Naidu won a majority in the state house winning 185 / 294 seats in the State Assembly and 29 / 42 in the Lok Sabha.

In 1995 TDP also split with a minority faction siding with N. T. Rama Rao and the majority faction chose to side with Chandrababu Naidu.

Parvathi formed the party after the internal coup in which NTR's son-in-law Chandrababu Naidu took control over TDP in 1995.

Initially NTRTDP ( LP ) appeared to be able to challenge the TDP of Naidu.

Soon after the formation of the government in response to the growing influence of Lakshmi Parvati on the political decisions of NTR, Chandrababu Naidu convinced a majority of the TDP MLAs to elect him as the chief minister.

Naidu completed his BA in 1972, after which he enrolled in the MA ( economics ) course.

Naidu entered the political scene as a youth leader from Chandragiri and after that there was no looking back from him.

Naidu after winning his first election contest

Chandra Babu Naidu with NTR after winning 1994 elections.

NTR opted for a mid-term poll after regaining the chief ministership, but Naidu did not contest the poll.

They, however, had a fall out with Naidu soon after the coup.

Naidu is said have promised to make Venkateswara Rao the Deputy Chief minister and Harikrishna the party's general secretary, but he sidelined them soon after becoming the Chief minister and Party president According to Venkateswara Rao, Naidu is said to have gained support of party MLA's by misrepresenting facts and stating that he was saving the party.

The Telugu Desam Party led by Chandrababu Naidu failed to come into the power after two successive wins, winning as low as 47 / 294 constituencies in the state assembly and 5 / 42 in the Lok Sabha segment.

In an emotional Interview after the coup NTR likened Naidu to Aurangzeb, The Mughal Emperor who jailed his father and killed his siblings to become the King of the Mughal Empire. He said it was unfortunate that the same was being repeated by Naidu after hundreds of years.

Naidu took over as BJP president after Jana Krishnamurthi stepped down in 2002.

Naidu also called for Reddy's resignation after a 2007 Khammam police shooting resulted in eight deaths.

Named after the famous woman freedom fighter Sarojini Naidu, this colony is encircled by Safdarjung Enclave, South Extension, Laxmibai Nagar, Nauroji Nagar, Chanakyapuri and Netaji Nagar.

Soon after India started witnessing an IT revolution with Bangalore as key IT hub, the government of AP then chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu realised the need for infrastructure to attract investments of several IT companies.

Nehru was alleged to have had relationships with Padmaja Naidu and Edwina Mountbatten.

Referring to Rajaji, Sarojini Naidu, who was never on good terms with him, remarked that ' the Madras fox was a dry logical Adi Shankaracharya while Nehru was the noble, compassionate Buddha '.

Naidu was born in the Naravari Palle village of Chittoor district on 20 April 1950.

His father N. Kharjura Naidu was a shepherd and his mother Ammanamma was a housewife.

The Nadamuri family was impressed with Chandrababu Naidu, and they soon proposed that NTR's daughter Bhuvaneswari be married to him.

Naidu instantly gave a positive response to the proposal, the wedding was conducted on a grand scale in Madras.

When Nadendla Bhaskara Rao staged the infamous coup against NTR in August 1984, it was Chandrababu Naidu who helped his father-in-law's NTR regain power by rallying and parading all the MLA's before the President of India at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Naidu, was the West's favourite Indian.

Time magazine named him South Asian of the Year ; the governor of Illinois created a Naidu Day in his honour, and the British government and the World Bank flooded his state with money. They loved him because he did what he was told.

Naidu came up with a vision document " Vision 2020 " which was devised by US consultancy firm McKinsey & Company.

Chandrababu Naidu was considered as a blue eyed boy of the IMF and World Bank.

The incident occurred around 16: 00 ( IST ) when Naidu was travelling in a convoy, heading to the Lord Venkateshwara temple in the Tirumala hills for the annual Brahmotsavam festival.

George Monbiot stated that Naidu's loss was in effect Mr. Tony Blair's loss, since it was Mr. Blair's policies that Naidu was seeking to implement.

But as the Congress had regained power in the state elections, Naidu had to sit in the Opposition.

BJP lost elections that leads to resignation of Venkaiah Naidu and followed by leading command of party to Lal Krishna Advani.

The elections resulted in the defeat of the then-ruling Telugu Desam Party under the leadership of N. Chandrababu Naidu.