Goka Ramalingam (21 October 1921 – 1999) was an Indian politician who served in the Hyderabad Legislative Assembly and the successive

Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly ( Telugu: ఆంధ్రప్రదేశ్ శాసన సభ, ISO: ''Āndhra Pradēś Śāsana Sabha'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the Indian state, Andhra Pradesh. ...

from 1952 until 1967. A member of the

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, Ramalingam represented the Bhongir and

Jangaon Jangaon (Janagama) is a Town and the district headquarters of Jangaon district in the Indian state of Telangana. It is also the mandal and divisional headquarters of Jangaon Mandal and Jangaon revenue division respectively. It is about from ...

constituencies.

Political career

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, Ramalingam successfully ran as an Indian National Congress candidate for a by-election to the Hyderabad Legislative Assembly, defeating Govinddas Shroff of the People's Democratic Front by less than 300 votes in the Bhongir constituency. Ramalingam succeeded

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of the PDF, who had been elected to the

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in the

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. Following the

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Hyderabad State Hyderabad State () was a princely state in the Deccan region of south-central India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and the ...

into

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in 1956, Ramalingam continued to represent the Bhongir constituency in the

, the successor to the Hyderabad Legislative Assembly. In the 1957 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Ramalingam was re-elected in the neighboring Jangaon constituency. He was re-elected again in the 1962 election. Ramalingam's younger brother Goka Ramaswamy was also an MLA, representing the Ghanpur Station constituency in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, and serving as a cabinet minister from 1978 to 1982.

References

{{reflist Place of death missing Hyderabad MLAs 1952–1957 Andhra Pradesh MLAs 1957–1962 Andhra Pradesh MLAs 1962–1967 Indian National Congress politicians from Andhra Pradesh 1921 births 1999 deaths