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Indian politician

Gopala Ramanujam

Governor of Goa
In office 4 August 1994 – 15 June 1995
Preceded by	B. Rachaiah
Succeeded by	Romesh Bhandari
Governor of Odisha
In office 18 June 1995 – 30 January 1997
Preceded by	B. Satya Narayan Reddy
Succeeded by	K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
Governor of Odisha
In office 13 February 1997 – 13 December 1997
Preceded by	K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
Succeeded by	K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
President Indian National Trade Union Congress
In office 1958–1960
In office 1985 – 3 August 1994
General Secretary	Kanti Mehta
Treasurer	Gopeshwar Das
Preceded by	Bindeshwari Dubey
Succeeded by	G. Sanjeeva Reddy

Personal details
Born	(1915-05-28)28 May 1915 Ramanathapuram, Madras Presidency, British India
Died	26 June 2001(2001-06-26) (aged 86)
Occupation	Politician

Gopala Ramanujam (1915–2001) was an Indian politician and co-founder of the Indian National Trade Union Congress. He was born on 28 May 1915 at Edircottal village, Ramanathapuram District in Tamil Nadu, India. He was a recipient of the third highest Indian civilian award of the Padma Bhushan.

Trade union

He was trained in trade union work during 1945 to 1947 at the Hindusthan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh and Majur Mahajan, Ahmedabad, an institution founded by Mahatma Gandhi. He was the president of the INTUC from 1958 to 1960, and general secretary from 1964 till 1984. In 1985, he was again elected president, and held the post until 3 August 1994.

To honour his commitment to trade unionism, the Chennai-based National Centre for Industrial Harmony conducts the annual G. Ramanujam Memorial Lecture. There is also a permanent chair in his name at The Tamil Nadu Institute of Labour Studies.

Governor

He was Governor of Goa from 4 August 1994, to 15 June 1995, before being transferred to Odisha. He was sworn in as Governor of Odisha on 18 June 1995, and stepped down on 30 January 1997. He did another stint from 13 February 1997, to 13 December 1997.

He held additional charge of Andhra Pradesh, from 22 August to 23 November 1997, when incumbent Krishan Kant was elected vice-president.

References

"History". www.intuc.net. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
^ "List of Odisha Governors" (PDF). Orissa Annual Reference. 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
"Government of Tamil Nadu : Archives of Press Releases | Tamil Nadu Government Portal". www.tn.gov.in. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
"Governors Since Liberation". Raj Bhavan Goa. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
"Raj Bhvan Odisha : Our Governor's". Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 June 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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1980	Sunil Gavaskar
1981	Vainu Bappu Prafulla Desai A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Gopinath Mohanty Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyaya Amritlal Nagar Mrinal Sen Avabai Bomanji Wadia
1982	Jasbir Singh Bajaj S. Balachander Gottipati Brahmayya Rani Gaidinliu Khadim Hussain Khan Stella Kramrisch Jal Minocher Mehta Grace Morley Syed Zahoor Qasim Kamal Ranadive P. N. Pattabhirama Sastri Jhabarmal Sharma Ajit Ram Verma
1983	Richard Attenborough Doraiswamy Iyengar V. G. Jog K. Sankaran Nair Prem Nazir Swraj Paul, Baron Paul Dr. Rajkumar K. G. Ramanathan Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala Subodh Chandra Sengupta Adi M. Sethna Arun Kumar Sharma Benudhar Sharma Bhalindra Singh Umrao Singh
1984	Horace Alexander Michael Ferreira Sivaji Ganesan Jnan Prakash Ghosh Kotha Satchidananda Murthy Hosur Narasimhaiah Sripada Pinakapani Ishwari Prasad B. C. Sanyal Marie Seton Archana Sharma Obaid Siddiqi Natwar Singh Ganda Singh Vijay Tendulkar Baldev Upadhyaya
1985	Durga Das Basu Shiba P. Chatterjee Eknath Vasant Chitnis Virender Lal Chopra Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon Santidev Ghosh Bhimsen Joshi Tribhuvandas Luhar Sadat Abul Masud Kalanidhi Narayanan Bernard Peters Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Gopala Ramanujam S. Ramaseshan Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry Amarjit Singh Gurbachan Singh Talib Bhalchandra Udgaonkar Srinivasan Varadarajan
1986	Pushpa Mittra Bhargava Ela Bhatt Manohar Lal Chibber Nasir Aminuddin Dagar V. Krishnamurthy Jean Riboud Sidney Dillon Ripley Rajeev Sethi Martand Singh C. Venkataraman Sundaram Badri Nath Tandon Gulshan Lal Tandon R. K. Trivedi
1987	Balamani Amma Kishori Amonkar Nikhil Banerjee Roddam Narasimha R. D. Pradhan Annada Shankar Ray Julio Ribeiro Man Mohan Sharma Laxmi Prasad Sihare Farokh Udwadia Mohammad Yunus
1988	19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche Ram Prakash Bambah Kartar Singh Duggal Ashok Sekhar Ganguly Abid Hussain Shreyans Prasad Jain Kelucharan Mohapatra Bal Ram Nanda Akkineni Nageswara Rao Pratury Trirumala Rao Renuka Ray B. V. Sreekantan Satya Pal Wahi
1989	Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway Banoo Jehangir Coyaji Girija Devi K. K. Hebbar Girilal Jain Anna Rajam Malhotra M. V. Mathur Ashesh Prosad Mitra Russi Mody Suresh Shankar Nadkarni Narinder Singh Randhawa Yoshio Sakurauchi Lakshman Singh Prakash Narain Tandon
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