Nadendla Bhaskara Rao (born 23 June 1935) is an Indian politician who served as the 11th

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for a brief period in 1984. He served the shortest term being as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh – 31 days. His son

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is the current MLA from

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and a current minister in the

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A lawyer by profession, he graduated from

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, he entered the AP state assembly in 1978. He served as a Minister of state in Chenna Reddy's cabinet. After TDP won assembly elections in 1983, Bhaskara Rao joined NTR cabinet as Finance minister.

Short-lived CM

After one and a half years of the TDP's rule he along with his supporters pulled a coup on the NTR government in August 1984. Congress (I) gave support to Bhaskara Rao's group within TDP at a time when NTR was away in the US to undergo angiogram. Since Congress was in power in Delhi and their nominee occupied the AP Governor's post, Bhaskara Rao became CM of Andhra Pradesh. Seventeen opposition parties, including the CPI, CPI(M), BJP and the Janata criticised this move and launched a 'Save democracy movement', leading to massive anti-Centre protest against the dismissal of the TDP government. NTR returned from US, wore black clothes and launched a statewide ''yathra'' to protest the dismissal of his government. He called it a ''dharma yuddham'' (a war for justice), a war against the authoritarian and autocratic rule at the centre, for restoration of democracy and safeguarding the Constitution. The central government, recalled the governor and reinstalled NTR as CM – the only instance in political history of India when a dismissed CM was reinstated. Bhaskara Rao left TDP and joined Congress (I) along with his close supporter Amukurajah Rao. He resigned as AP CM after his tenure only lasted 31 days.

Post CM days

After a political hiatus, Bhaskara Rao was elected to the 12th

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in 1998 from

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Constituency. He filed a defamation litigation on '' N.T.R: Mahanayakudu'' movie for showing his character negatively. He remains active in state politics until 6 July 2019 when he joined

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in the presence of Union Home Minister and

President

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.Former Andhra pradesh CM Bhaskara Rao joins BJP
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References

External links

"Democratic Process and Electoral Politics in Andhra Pradesh" by K.C. Suri (2002)
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History of TDP by G. Vasu
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