Political Career
He was elected as a District Board member in 1938, a position equivalent to the post-Indian independence role of Zilla Parishad Director. In order to advance his aims further he then moved from Dhone to Kurnool. From his new base he assisted the oppressed weaker sections of society. This brought enmity and resistance from factionists and forward castes who tried to prevent him reaching the weaker sections through all means to an extent of killing his supporters and scaring him with the same fatality.
After independence he contested the 1967 legislative assembly elections for Andhra Pradesh from Kurnool assembly constituency. These he won, and thus became MLA for Kurnool assembly on Indian National Congress political party.
In 1972 he got elected to Legislative Council of Andhra Pradesh. He also worked as president for Kurnool district Indian National Congress party president till he retired from active politics in 1978.
He supported Damodaram Sanjivayya in the latter's successful campaign to become the first chief minister of Andhra Pradesh to have come from a Scheduled Caste. Sanjivayya was a close political associate and friend of K.E. Madanna along with fellow contemporary friends and associates were Pendekanti Venkata Subbaiah, Narsappa, and B. V. Subbareddy.
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