C.C. Ayyappan

C.C. Ayyappan (1920-1960) was an Indian politician.

Ayyappan was born in 1920.[1] He studied up to Pre-Degree.[1] He was active in struggle for social upliftment of dalits.[1]

He was elected as the Cochin Party candidate for the Scheduled Castes reserved seat of the Wadakkanchery constituency in the 1952 Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly election.[2][3] Ayyappan won the reserved seat, obtaining 11,085 votes - defeating the socialist candidate Karappan by a margin of 282 votes.[2] Ayyappan was the sole winning candidate of the Cochin Party.[2]

In the subsequent 1954 Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly election he contested the Wadakkanchery reserved seat as a Communist Party of India candidate.[3][4] He retained the seat, obtaining 25,487 votes against 21,885 votes for the Indian National Congress candidate Koman.[5]

After the creation of the Kerala state, he was re-elected from the Wadakkanchery constituency in the 1957 Kerala Legislative Assembly election. He obtained 33,161 votes.[6] In the Kerala Legislative Assembly, he was the chairman of the Committee on Petitions for the periods of 1957-1958 and 1958-1959.[1] He lost the Wadakkanchery seat in the 1960 Kerala Legislative Assembly election, obtaining 44,199 votes.[7] C.C. Ayyappan died later the same year.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Niyama Sabha. Members - C. C. Ayyappan
  2. ^ a b c Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF TRAVANCORE COCHIN
  3. ^ a b Turlach, Manfred. Kerala: Politisch-soziale Struktur und Entwicklung eines indischen Bundeslandes. Harrassowitz, 1970. p. 120
  4. ^ Fisher, Margaret Welpley, and Bondurant, Joan Valérie. The Indian Experience with Democratic Elections. University of California, 1956. p. 9
  5. ^ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1954 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF TRAVANCORE COCHIN
  6. ^ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1957 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF KERALA
  7. ^ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1960 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF KERALA
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