Surprising as it might sound, Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and caretaker chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao does not have any account on the social media platforms, whether it is Twitter of Facebook.
And he does not even have his own e-mail ID, though in the capacity of chief minister, he has official mail ID and Facebook and Twitter accounts run by the Chief Minister’s Office, an affidavit submitted by KCR along with his nomination papers to the returning officer at Gajwel Revenue Divisional Officer on Wednesday.
However, he has a gmail account, whose ID is: vpreddy0003@gmail.com, Apparently, KCR’s gmail account is being operated by his close associate and ex-Balkonda MLA Vemula Prashant Reddy, who recently stepped down from the post of Mission Bhagiratha Commission vice-chairman post.
Interestingly, KCR’s son and Telangana IT minister K T Rama Rao and daughter K Kavitha, Lok Sabha member from Nizamabad, are highly tech-savvy and are very active in the social media.
Though they have their respective social media managers, they personally post their observations on Twitter and reply to the feedback.
In his election affidavit, KCR declared his total assets worth over Rs 22.60 crore, but neither he nor his wife Shobha owns any vehicle. He has become richer by about Rs.6 crore since he took over as the chief minister in 2014.
KCR’s total movable assets are valued at over Rs 10.40 crore while his wife K. Shobha has movable assets of over Rs 94.5 lakh. He has immovable assets of about Rs 12.20 crore which includes 54-acre agriculture land valued at Rs 6.50 crore.
The TRS chief declared his profession as agriculturist and his wife as home maker. He put his annual income for financial year 2017-18 at Rs 2.07 crore including agricultural income of Rs 91.52 lakh.
He declared that he has investments of Rs 4.71 crore in shares of Telangana Broadcasting Private Limited. He has Rs 5.63 crore in bank accounts and fixed deposit.
KCR owns a house in Hyderabad and another in Karimnagar, together valued at Rs.5.10 crore. He also has 2.04 acre non-agriculture land in Siddipet district valued Rs 60 lakh.
He owns 75 grams of jewellery worth Rs 2.40 lakh and has Rs 2.40 lakh cash in hand while his wife has 2,200 grams of gold jewellery, diamonds and valuables gems/stone worth Rs 93,66,184 and Rs. 93,595 cash in hand.
According to the affidavit, KCR has liabilities to the tune of Rs 8.88 crore in the form of unsecured loans.
He owes Rs.82.82 lakh to his son K. T. Rama Rao and Rs 24.65 lakh to his daughter-in-law Shailima. He has no bank loans.