C.C. Ayyappan (1920-1960) was an Indian politician.
Ayyappan was born in 1920.Niyama Sabha. Members - C. C. Ayyappan He studied up to Pre-Degree. He was active in the struggle for social upliftment of Dalits.
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.Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF TRAVANCORE COCHINTurlach, Manfred. Kerala: Politisch-soziale Struktur und Entwicklung eines indischen Bundeslandes. Harrassowitz, 1970. p. 120 Ayyappan won the reserved seat, obtaining 11,085 votes - defeating the socialist candidate Karappan by a margin of 282 votes. Ayyappan was the sole winning candidate of the Cochin Party.
In the subsequent 1954 Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly election he contested the Wadakkanchery reserved seat as a Communist Party of India candidate.Fisher, Margaret Welpley, and Bondurant, Joan Valérie. The Indian Experience with Democratic Elections. University of California, 1956. p. 9 He retained the seat, obtaining 25,487 votes against 21,885 votes for the Indian National Congress candidate Koman.Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1954 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF TRAVANCORE COCHIN
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.Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1957 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF KERALA In the Kerala Legislative Assembly, he was the chairman of the Committee on Petitions for the periods of 1957-1958 and 1958-1959. He lost the Wadakkanchery seat in the 1960 Kerala Legislative Assembly election, obtaining 44,199 votes.Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1960 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF KERALA C.C. Ayyappan died later the same year.
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