Satyam, forty years ago, was born in a middle peasant family in Ustinapalli village of Anantpur district, which ranks thirteenth in the most famine prone areas in the world. He did his Intermediate course at Kadiri, a Tehsil town in the district. Later completed his graduation in science at Tirupati. He did his Post graduate course at S.K.University at Anantpur.

While he was in Tirupati he was attracted to the Radical Students Union in the early eighties. From then he was active and later continued his activism at Anantpur. Joining the People’s War, he decided to work full time, he went to the countryside organizing the rural poor. From then he stayed there in the countryside till his last breath. He was there in all the ups and down of the party. The first and second crisis in the party affected the Rayala Seema region. The second severely affected the region. He stood steadfast to the correct line opposing the KS-Bandayya’s conspiracies. He, along with other comrades, developed the organization which was split badly because of KS-Bandayya factionalism.

Com. Satyam became the District secretary and later he became the secretary of Rayala Seema regional committee. He was elected into AP state committee at the 2000 conference. When the first military commission was formed at the state level, he was in it.

Since the Police were quite anxious to show results in the Alipiri case, where Chandra Babu Naidu escaped a assassination attempt by the PGA of the CPI(ML)(PW), in which Com. Satyam was also made an accused, the Police took no time in killing Satyam and the two other comrades.

They spun a cock and bull story that none believed. That Satyam and Sivanand while they were being brought to Tirupati, though they were chained with handcuffs, they injured, took the revolver of the Police officer and tried to escape while shooting the police. Then the police prevailed upon them and shot. Satyam died immediately and Sivanand died while being taken to hospital. The print media came vehemently against the police for liquidating the people in an extra judicial manner. Leading papers wrote editorials condemning the police’s nefarious killings. Civil liberties organizations, other democratic organizations, condemned the police story as false. A fact finding team from the International League of People’s Lawyers which came to Andhra Pradesh in the third week of January 2004, to investigate the human rights violations in AP also took note of this incident. CB Naidu and his Khaki men did not care a hoot despite condemnation of all sections of people. The police notoriety took an ugly turn when police forged a letter from the CPI(ML)(PW), purported to be written by the secretary of the state committee that Com. Satyam and others were in fact caught, as Laxman, ex-secretary of APCLC gave information. Laxman was kidnapped by Nayeem and his gang( the vigilantes) under the direction of AP Police some days before this incident.

In the death of Satyam, the revolutionary movement lost an indefatigable warrior of the guerrilla army that is much needed in the liberation of our country. The soft spoken but hard on the enemy — Satyam participated in all the military trainings to improve his military skills.

More than two decades ago, he left home and he never looked back. In the country side he led many a peasant and agricultural labourers struggles and become quite popular with the masses as well as cadre.