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{{Short description|Indian politician and lawyer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Nidemane Somana
| image = N_Somanna.gif
| caption = N Somanna
| birth_date ={{Birth date|df=yes|1905|4|15}}
| birth_place = [[Bhagamandala]], [[Coorg Province]], [[British India]]
| residence =
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1958|01|25|1905|4|15}}
| death_place =
| office = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha|Member of Parliament]]
| constituency = [[Coorg (Lok Sabha constituency)|Coorg]]
| term = 1952–1957
| predecessor = ''Position Established''
| successor = ''Position Abolished (Merged with [[Mangalore (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mangalore]] of [[Mysore State]])''
| office2 = [[Karnataka Legislative Assembly|Member of Legislative Assembly]], [[Mysore State]]
| constituency2 = [[Periyapatna]]
| term2 = 1957–1958
| predecessor2 = ''Position Established''
| successor2 = K. M. Devayya
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]
| spouse = Subbamma
| children = 4 Sons, 5 Daughters
| occupation = Advocate, Politician
| website =
| footnotes =
| date =
| year =
| blank1 = Source
| data1 = [http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/1046.htm]
}}
'''Nidemane Somana''' (15 April 1905 – 25 January 1958) was an Indian politician and lawyer. He was an [[Indian National Congress]] leader in [[Coorg State]] and served as the Member of Parliament for the state in the first legislature after the independence of India.

==Personal life==
Born in [[Bhagamandala]] on 15 April 1905, N. Somana was the son of N. Ramapa, a civil servant.<ref name=ls>Lok Sabha. ''[http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/1046.htm Members Bioprofile: SOMANA, SHRI N.]''</ref><ref name="Singh1954">{{cite book|author=Trilochan Singh|title=Indian Parliament (1952–57): "Personalities"-Series 2 Authentic, Comprehensive and Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of Members of the Two Houses of Parliament|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PFvVAAAAMAAJ|year=1954|publisher=Arunam & Sheel|page=277}}</ref> He belonged to the [[Kodagu Gowda|Gowdugal community]].<ref name="Park1956">{{cite book|author=Richard Leonard Park|title=Reports on the Indian general elections, 1951–52|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=klA5AQAAIAAJ|year=1956|publisher=Popular Book Depot|pages=271–272}}</ref> He was schooled at Central High School in [[Mercara]], later studying at St. Aloysius College in [[Mangalore]] and [[Madras Law College]].<ref name=ls/> He married Subbamma in 1927, the couple had nine children (four sons and five daughters).<ref name=ls/> He obtained his [[Bachelor of Law]] degree in 1930.<ref name="Singh1954"/> He also obtaining a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree.<ref name=ls/>

==Independence struggle==
N. Somana joined the [[Indian National Congress]] after graduating from Law College.<ref name="Singh1954"/> He supported the [[khadi]] movement.<ref name="Singh1954"/> He took part in the protests against the [[Simon Commission]].<ref name="Singh1954"/> He went underground during the 1942 [[Quit India movement]] to escape arrest.<ref name="Singh1954"/> He held the post as Vice President of the Coorg District Congress Committee, which worked under the Mysore Pradesh Congress Committee at the time.<ref name="Singh1954"/><ref name="Ramaswamy2007">{{cite book|author=Harish Ramaswamy|title=Karnataka Government and Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UM3LjKo8Uo8C&pg=PA383|year=2007|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-8069-397-7|pages=383, 390}}</ref>

==Coorg legislator==
N. Somana served as member of the Coorg Legislative Council from 1945 until the dissolution of Coorg State.<ref name=ls/><ref name="Singh1954"/> In the Legislative Council, N. Somana was a member of the Finance Committee.<ref name="Singh1954"/> He served as member of the Committee for the Five-Year Plan for the uplift of Harijans.<ref name=ls/><ref name="Singh1954"/> In 1947 he became a member of the Karnataka University Committee, appointed by the Government of Bombay to represent Coorg in the Committee.<ref name=ls/><ref name="Singh1954"/> He served as Vice President of the Coorg District Board until 1951.<ref name="Singh1954"/> N. Somana was one of ten Coorg politicians invited by [[Sardar Patel]] in 1949 for discussions on the future of the state.<ref name="Singh1954"/>

==Parliamentarian==
N. Somana was elected to the [[1st Lok Sabha]] (lower house of the [[parliament of India]]) in the [[1952 Indian general election]], representing [[Coorg (Lok Sabha constituency)|Coorg]].<ref name="Singh1954"/> He obtained 38,063 votes (59.65%), defeating independent candidate K.T. Uthappa (former Assistant Commissioner of Coorg, a rich planter and stern supporter of retaining a separate Coorg state) for the sole seat of Coorg State in the Lok Sabha.<ref name="Park1956"/><ref name=e1952>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1951/VOL_1_51_LS.PDF STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1951 TO THE FIRST LOK SABHA – VOLUME I (NATIONAL AND STATE ABSTRACTS & DETAILED RESULTS)]''</ref> In parliament he became a member of the Committee on Home Affairs and the Committee on Planning and Communications.<ref name="Muthanna1953">{{cite book|author=I. M. Muthanna|title=A Tiny Model State of South India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ux9AAAAAMAAJ|year=1953|publisher=Tiny Spot|page=129}}</ref> He was a member of the Indian Coffee Board, but resigned in 1957.<ref>{{cite book|title=Indian Coffee: Bulletin of the Indian Coffee Board|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ghAPAQAAIAAJ|year=1957|publisher=Coffee Board.|page=56}}</ref>

==Mysore State legislator==
After the merger of Coorg into [[Mysore State]], N. Somana was elected to the Mysore State Legislative Assembly in the 1957 election. He stood as the Indian National Congress candidate in the Periyapatna constituency. N. Somana obtained 19,714 votes (68.08%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_Mysore_1957.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1957 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MYSORE]''</ref>

N. Somana died from a heart attack on 25 January 1958 in Mercara.<ref>{{cite book|title=Lok Sabha Debates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kTtPAQAAMAAJ|date=10 February 1958|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat|page=145}}</ref> After his death a by-election for the Periyapatna seat was held, won by Indian National Congress candidate K.M. Devayya.<ref name="Commission1957">{{cite book|author=India. Election Commission|title=Results of Bye-elections|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G8O2AAAAIAAJ|year=1957|page=32}}</ref>

N. Somana is one of only two politicians from [[Kodagu district]] (Coorg) to have been elected to the Lok Sabha, the other politician being former Coorg State Chief Minister [[C.M. Poonacha]], who got elected from [[Mangalore (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mangalore Lok Sabha constituency]] in 1967, when [[Kodagu district]] was under [[Mangalore (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mangalore Lok Sabha constituency]].<ref name="Ramaswamy2007"/>

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:1905 births]]
[[Category:1958 deaths]]
[[Category:1st Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Karnataka]]
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Coorg]]
[[Category:People from Kodagu district]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian lawyers]]
[[Category:Mysore MLAs 1957–1962]]

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