Koratala Satyanarayana - Electoral Representation

Electoral Representation

In the first general elections held in 1952, Koratala contested as Party candidate from Tenali Lok Sabha constituency. He lost with a slender margin of 1100 votes.

Koratala contested for the state assembly election from Repalle constituency continuously from 1962 to 1978 and won twice in 1962, as a member of the Communist Party of India and in 1978, as 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 since 1985 till his last breath. He was the Party state secretary between 1991 and 1997. He served as Politbureau member of the Party between 2002 and 2005. He visited China and Bulgaria as part of the Party central committee team which toured for 25 days.

Satyanarayana won the Repalle assembly seat in the 1962 and 1978 Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly elections. He used to be the Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh State Committee of the CPI(M). Satyanarayana is the chairman of Prajasakti Sahiti Samstha, the publishing house of the CPI(M).