Newsmaker: Meet K Chandrashekhar Rao, a man who is not afraid to take risk

Rao has put in place a number of measures that may seem populist. Among them, he waived farm loans up to Rs 100,000

K Chandrashekhar Rao (popularly known as KCR) is chief minister of a state that was in 2018 rated number two for the ease of doing business in India. Possibly on the back of that endorsement, he has proposed advancing the Assembly polls from May next year to November this year. He is, clearly, a man who is not afraid of taking risk.

This pretty much sums up KCR. Fortune favours the brave and he has done well by taking risks and winning it all.

He was in the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and an MLA for four terms. In 1999, he was