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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| office = Member of the<br>[[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| term_start = 1957<br />
| term_end = 1967<br />
| constituency = [[Jangaon Assembly constituency|Jangaon]]<br />
| predecessor = [[Syed Akhtar Hussain]]<br />
| successor = [[M. K. Ahmed]]<br />
| term_start1 = 1956<br />
| term_end1 = 1957<br />
| constituency1 = [[Bhongir Assembly constituency|Bhongir]]<br />
| predecessor1 = ''Himself''<br />
| successor1 = [[Ravi Narayan Reddy]]<br />
| office2 = Member of the<br>[[Hyderabad Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| term_start2 = 1952<br />
| term_end2 = 1957<br />
| constituency2 = [[Bhongir Assembly constituency|Bhongir]]<br />
| predecessor2 = [[Ravi Narayan Reddy]]<br />
| successor2 = ''Himself''<br />
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|10|21|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Jangaon]], [[Hyderabad State]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br />(now in [[Telangana]], India)<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|11|27|1921|10|21|df=y}}<br />
| spouse = Goka Kumaramma<br />
}}<br />
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'''Goka Ramalingam''' (21 October 1921 – 1999) was an Indian politician who served in the [[Hyderabad Legislative Assembly]] and the successive [[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] from 1952 until 1967. A member of the [[Indian National Congress]], Ramalingam represented the [[Bhongir Assembly constituency|Bhongir]] and [[Jangaon Assembly constituency|Jangaon]] constituencies.<br />
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== Political career ==<br />
In [[1952 Hyderabad Legislative Assembly election|1952]], Ramalingam successfully ran as an Indian National Congress candidate for a by-election to the [[Hyderabad Legislative Assembly]], defeating [[Govinddas Mannulal Shroff|Govinddas Shroff]] of the [[People's Democratic Front (Hyderabad)|People's Democratic Front]] by less than 300 votes in the [[Bhongir Assembly constituency|Bhongir constituency]].<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eLKc8roFtdIC&q=%22Goka+Ramalingam%22 |title=Results of Bye-elections Held Since the First General Elections 1951-52 Upto the 31st July, 1955 |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |year=1956 |location=New Delhi |pages=77 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Sharma |first=I. Mallikarjuna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wwluAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Goka+Ramalingam%22 |title=In Retrospect: pt. 1. Andhra Pradesh : heroes and heroines of Telangana armed struggle |publisher=Ravi Sasi Enterprises |year=2002 |isbn=978-81-88151-00-4 |location=Hyderabad |pages=563 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> Ramalingam succeeded [[Ravi Narayana Reddy]] of the PDF, who had been elected to the [[1st Lok Sabha]] in the [[1952 Indian general election]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Patil |first=Shivraj |author-link=Shivraj Patil |date=September 11, 1991 |title=OBITUARY REFERENCE |url=https://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lsdeb/ls10/ses1/01110991.htm |access-date=2022-06-16 |website=[[Parliament of India]]}}</ref> Following the [[States Reorganisation Act, 1956|reorganization]] of [[Hyderabad State (1948–1956)|Hyderabad State]] into [[Andhra Pradesh (1956–2014)|Andhra Pradesh]] in 1956,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Koshi |first=Luke |date=2016-11-02 |title=The reorganization of states in India and why it happened |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/explainer-reorganization-states-india-and-why-it-happened-52273 |access-date=2022-06-16 |website=[[The News Minute]] |language=en}}</ref> Ramalingam continued to represent the Bhongir constituency in the [[Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly]], the successor to the Hyderabad Legislative Assembly. In the [[1957 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]], Ramalingam was re-elected in the neighboring [[Jangaon Assembly constituency|Jangaon constituency]]. He was re-elected again in the [[1962 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|1962 election]].<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UhwvAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Goka+Ramalingam%22 |title=Report on the General Elections in India |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]] |year=1962 |volume=2 |location=New Delhi |pages=117 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><br />
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Ramalingam's younger brother [[Goka Ramaswamy]] was also an MLA, representing the [[Ghanpur Station Assembly constituency|Ghanpur Station constituency]] in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, and serving as a cabinet minister from 1978 to 1982.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Place of death missing]]<br />
[[Category:Hyderabad MLAs 1952–1957]]<br />
[[Category:Andhra Pradesh MLAs 1955–1962]]<br />
[[Category:Andhra Pradesh MLAs 1962–1967]]<br />
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:1921 births]]<br />
[[Category:1999 deaths]]</div>LesterKitamura4