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Tuesday, Jul 04, 2006

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Marxist leader Koratala cremated

Special Correspondent

FOR OLD-TIMES SAKE: CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury with Jagadamba, wife of late M. Basavapunniah, at a condolence meeting of Koratala Satyanarayana in Hyderabad on Monday.

HYDERABAD: The body of veteran Marxist leader Koratala Satyanarayana was cremated at Bansilalpet here on Monday.

The CPI (M) leaders and cadre who gathered in impressive numbers took the body of Koratala in a procession from M.B. Bhavan, the CPI (M) State headquarters, where the body had been kept, to Bansilalpet in a flower-bedecked lorry this morning.

The CPI (M) polit bureau members Sitaram Yechury and R. Umanath, the party's State secretary B.V. Raghavulu and senior party leaders participated in the procession.

Representatives from other political parties including TDP polit bureau member T. Devender Goud, CPI State secretary K. Narayana and others also accompanied the procession.

TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu, BJP State president N. Indrasena Reddy, TRS leader and Union Minister A. Narendra, the State Government's advisor K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao were among others who paid homage to the departed leader.

Addressing the gathering at the M.B. Bhavan, Mr. Yechury, Mr. Umanath and others recalled Koratala's services in building the party from the grassroots levels. Koratala, who worked with the first generation Communist leaders, was equally close to the later generations.

The Communist movement in general and the CPI (M) in particular suffered a big loss in his death, they said.

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