Kottu Satyanarayana is an Indian politician. He was the 10th

Deputy Chief Minister A chief minister is an elected or appointed head of government of – in most instances – a sub-national entity, for instance an administrative subdivision or federal constituent entity. Examples include a state (and sometimes a union terri ...

and Endowments minister of

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (ISO 15919, ISO: , , AP) is a States and union territories of India, state on the East Coast of India, east coast of southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, seventh-largest state and th ...

from 11 April 2022. He represents

Tadepalligudem Tadepalligudem is a city in West Godavari district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Tadepalligudem is the judicial headquarter of West Godavari district, West Godavari. It is a Selection Grade municipality and the mandal headquarters of ...

constituency in 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He also served as Tadepalligudem MLA from 2004 to 2009.

Early life

Kottu Satyanarayana was born in

West Godavari district The West Godavari district is a coastal district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh with an administrative headquarters in Bhimavaram. As of the 2011 Census of India, the district has an area of and a population of 1,779,935. It is bounded ...

of Andhra Pradesh. He completed his intermediate education at D. R. G. Government College,

Pentapadu Pentapadu is a village in West Godavari district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Demographics Census of India, Pentapadu had a population of 12889. The total population constitutes, 6377 males and 6512 females with a sex ratio of 1021 ...

. He is married to Soudhani Kumari.

Career

Kottu Satyanarayana contested from the

Congress party The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement t ...

in the

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

and

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections but did not win. He was elected to the assembly for the first time in the

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

elections with a majority of 24,933 votes against his nearest rival, the TDP candidate Pasala Kanakasundaram Rao. He has served as a member of the PCC, member of Assurance Committee of Andhra Pradesh Legislative, and member of House Committee Irregularities of Milk Dairies. Satyanarayana has contested from Congress in

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

and as an independent candidate in

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

, but lost both times. In the

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Assembly elections, he was elected as an MLA for the second time with a majority of 16,466 votes against his nearest rival TDP candidate Eeli Venkata Madhusudhana Rao (Eeli Nani). He was inducted into the Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy ministry on April 11, 2022, and was sworn in as the

and Endowments minister of Andhra Pradesh.

References

{{Authority control Andhra Pradesh MLAs 2004–2009 Andhra Pradesh MLAs 2019–2024 Politicians from West Godavari district YSR Congress Party politicians Living people Indian National Congress politicians from Andhra Pradesh Deputy chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh Year of birth missing (living people)