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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mayor Chittibabu
| image =
| caption =
| constituency =
| office = [[List of mayors of Chennai|29th]] [[Mayor of Chennai]]
| term = 1965-1966
| predecessor = [[S. Krishnamurthy]]
| successor = Era Sambandham
| constituency1 =[[Chengalpattu (Lok Sabha constituency)|Chengalpattu constituency]]
| office1 = [[Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]
| term1 =1967-76
| predecessor1 =[[O. V. Alagesan]]
| successor1 = R. Mohanarangam
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1935|10|19}}
| birth_place = [[Tindivanam]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[British India]]
| residence =
| death_date ={{death date and age|1977|1|4|1935|10|19|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Madras]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India<br />(now [[Chennai]])
| party = [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| religion =
| spouse = Gangabai,Rajalakshmi
| children = Sekhar,Sukumar,Vishweshwaran,Malathi
| website =
| footnotes =
}}'''Chockalinga Chittibabu''' commonly known as '''Mayor Chittibabu''' was an Indian politician and former [[Parliament of India|Member of Parliament]] elected from [[Tamil Nadu]]. He was elected to the [[Lok Sabha]] from [[Chengalpattu (Lok Sabha constituency)|Chengalpattu constituency]] as a [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] candidate in [[Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1967|1967]] and [[Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1971|1971]] elections.<ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1967/Vol_I_LS_67.pdf Volume I, 1967 Indian general election, 4th Lok Sabha] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718185108/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1967/Vol_I_LS_67.pdf |date=18 July 2014 }}</ref><ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1971/Vol_I_LS71.pdf Volume I, 1971 Indian general election, 5th Lok Sabha] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718175452/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1971/Vol_I_LS71.pdf |date=18 July 2014 }}</ref> He was first elected to the Madras Corporation in 1958 and was the Mayor of Madras in 1965.< He was arrested under the [[Maintenance of Internal Security Act]] after [[Indira Gandhi]] declared [[The Emergency (India)|emergency]] and the DMK government was dismissed in 1976.He was jailed along with DMK leaders and Chittibabu died of injuries and police torture suffered while trying to save [[M.K.Stalin]] in Central Prison, Madras .<ref>{{cite web | url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-01-06/news/36162200_1_m-karunanidhi-alagiri-kanimozhi | title=What makes MK Stalin the political successor of Karunanidhi | work=[[The Economic Times]] | date=6 June 2013 | accessdate=27 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tehelka.com/2009/03/the-end-of-a-prisons-days/ | title=The end of a prison’s days | publisher=[[Tehelka]] | work=PC Vinoj Kumar | date=7 March 2009 | accessdate=27 May 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625082428/http://www.tehelka.com/2009/03/the-end-of-a-prisons-days/ | archive-date=25 June 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Ramaswamy2007">{{cite book|author=Vijaya Ramaswamy|title=Historical Dictionary of the Tamils|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H4q0DHGMcjEC&pg=PA61|date=22 May 2007|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6445-0|page=61}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/misa-detention-taught-me-a-tough-lesson-says-stalin/article8177100.ece | title=MISA detention taught me a tough lesson, says Stalin | work=The Hindu| date=1 February 2016 | accessdate=27 May 2016}}</ref><ref name="Sabha1978">{{cite book|author=India. Parliament. Rajya Sabha|title=Parliamentary Debates: Official Report. Rajya Sabha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RGDVAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Council of States Secretariat|page=275}}</ref><ref name="Krishna2011">{{cite book|author=Ananth V. Krishna|title=India Since Independence: Making Sense of Indian Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8v7Vr2iQUHkC&pg=PA162|year=2011|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-3465-0|page=162}}</ref>

The year of 1975 was a tough time for India and its democracy. That year, Indira Gandhi, the then Congress Prime Minister of India, declared Emergency on the Country, suppressing civil rights and unleashing a rein of terror.

== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/1744.htm Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140727140717/http://mkstalin.in/prison-life-under-misa M..K Stalin Prison Life]

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[[Category:4th Lok Sabha members]]
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[[Category:Mayors of Chennai]]
[[Category:1935 births]]
[[Category:1977 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Viluppuram district]]
[[Category:People from Kanchipuram district]]

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