Koratala Satyanarayana (24 September 1923 – 1 July 2006) was a

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from

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. He was a

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member of the

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(CPI(M)).

Electoral representation

Koratala Satyanarayana was born in the village of Pyaparru,

Guntur district Guntur district is one of the twenty six districts in the Coastal Andhra region of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The administrative seat of the district is located at Guntur, the largest city of the district in terms of area and with a po ...

, Andhra Pradesh. He joined the

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in the 1940s. In the first general elections, held in 1952, Koratala contested in the

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Lok Sabha constituency. He lost with a slender margin of 1100 votes. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh in 1962, when he stood as a candidate in the Repalle constituency. In 1978, he was elected from the Repalle constituency. In 1962, he had been a candidate of the

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and in 1978, he was a member of the CPI(M). He led a team for survey, basing on which the Party adopted a resolution ‘On Certain Agrarian Issues’. Though not a regular writer, Koratala used to contribute to newspapers depending on the need of the hour. In 1967 Koratala was first elected to the state committee of the CPI(M) and in 1978 to the state secretariat. He was a member of Party central committee from 1982 until his death. He was the Party state secretary between 1991 and 1997. He served as

member of the Party between 2002 and 2005. He visited

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and

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as part of the Party central committee team which toured for 25 days.

Death

Koratala Satyanarayana died from

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on 1 July 2006 at his home in

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. He was survived by wife, two sons and a daughter.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Satyanarayana, Koratala Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from Andhra Pradesh Telugu politicians 1923 births 2006 deaths Deaths from cancer in India Andhra Pradesh MLAs 1978–1983 People from Guntur district