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Ramsingh Verma was an Indian trade unionist and politician.

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  • In the period leading up to World War II the textile workers union movement in Indore had come under communist control. Maharaja Yashwant Rao Holkar II requested support from pro-Congress trade unions.[1] In response Gulzarilal Nanda sent Dravid and Ramsingh Verma to Indore to build a pro-Congress textile workers trade union to compete with the communists.[1] They founded the Indore Mill Mazdoor Sangh in December 1941.[1] Dravid and Verma emerged as popular leaders and came to constitute a faction in the Indian National Congress in Indore.[1] Dravid and Verma were arrested during the 1942 Quit India movement, and spent nearly a year and a half in detention.[2][1] In jail they befriended Gangaram Tiwari, whom they recruited to IMMS.[1] They were released in late 1943, after which the IMMS was reactivated.[3][1][4] By 1943 IMMS had some 1,760 members.[1] By 1945 the IMMS membership had grown to around 5,000.[1] Apart from regular trade union activities, IMMS also engaged in social welfare activities and setting up workers housing colonies.[4]
  • As of the 1952 elections there were three main factions in the party, the Nai Duniya [hi] faction (representing the former Praja Mandal movement), the Khadiwala faction (Hindi-speaking Brahmans) and the labour faction of Verma and Dravid. The labour faction and Nai Duniya faction got two seats each to contest in the 1952 Madhya Bharat Legislative Assembly election whilst the Khadiwala faction got the Indore Lok Sabha seat. The labour faction candidates were Verma and Dravid. Dravid contested the Indore City B constituency, which was located to the south of the city, was considered a safe seat for the Congress Party and which had a predominately rural electorate.[1] Verma, on the other hand, contested the constituency were most of the labourers lived.[1]
  • "In the 1952 elections the IMMS had been satisfied with two of the

Indore tickets, but in 1957 the I N T U C group felt powerful enough to demand 3 tickets. Dravid wanted to reward GT with an MLA seat. Ramsingh was willing to give up his M L A seat to run for the more glamorous LS. It was this move that Kanhaiyalal Khadiwala (with Nai Duniya support) was able to block by securing the Indore LS ticket for himself. The Con- gress high command arbitrated the ticket dispute and offered Ram- singh the Nimar (Khargone) Lok Sabha " p. 293 Jones

  • "Ramsingh, as President of the IMMS" 1963, allegedly made pact with RC Jall, for four-loom system (higher wages for operators but entrenchment thousands of permanent workers). VVD lab minister disapproved of the deal. p. 302
  • Verma in response tried to remove GT as sec, no confidence motion IMMS Working Cmte on June 5, 1963. Failed to get GT removed, but formed a 5-member committee of his own loyalists to investigate GT for sabotage of IMMS. p. 303
  • Dravid and Verma worked closely together during two decades, with Dravid representing the labour faction within the state government and Verma being the main organiser.[1]
  • 1952 Indore City A 10276 49.05%[5]
  • 1962 LS 2nd Indore 89389 38.94%[6]
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  5. ^ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MADHYA BHARAT
  6. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20150508192259/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1962/Vol_I_LS_62.pdf