Dr NTR who found the Telugu Desam Party on March 21 st, 1982 and served as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh for seven years.
The party stormed to power within nine months of its formation in the 1983 Assembly elections, thus forming the first non-Congress government in Andhra Pradesh.[3] It also achieved the rare distinction of being the first regional party to become the main opposition party (33 MPs in Parliament compared to 2 MPs of BJP in the elections after sudden demise of Mrs. Indira Gandhi leading to a sympathetic win by the Congress party which came to power) in the Central Government during the 8th Lok Sabha from 1984 to 1989.[4] The party has governed the state of Andhra Pradesh twice from 1983 to 1989 and then from 1994 to 2004.