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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:C.C._Ayyappan_(Kerala_MLA).jpg|thumb|C.C. Ayyappan]]'''C.C. Ayyappan''' (1920-1960) was an Indian politician. <br />
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Ayyappan was born in 1920.<ref name=nsa>Niyama Sabha. ''[http://www.niyamasabha.org/codes/members/m053.htm Members - C. C. Ayyappan]''</ref> He studied up to Pre-Degree.<ref name=nsa/> He was active in the struggle for social upliftment of [[Dalit]]s.<ref name=nsa/><br />
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He was elected as the [[Cochin Party]] candidate for the [[Scheduled Castes]] reserved seat of the [[Wadakkanchery Assembly constituency|Wadakkanchery constituency]] in the [[1952 Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly election]].<ref name=ecitc52>Election Commission of India. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150509012706/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatRep_51_TRAV-COCH.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF TRAVANCORE COCHIN]''</ref><ref name=mtu>Turlach, Manfred. ''[https://www.google.at/books/edition/Kerala/bi0NAQAAIAAJ Kerala: Politisch-soziale Struktur und Entwicklung eines indischen Bundeslandes]''. Harrassowitz, 1970. p. 120</ref> Ayyappan won the reserved seat, obtaining 11,085 votes - defeating the [[Socialist Party (India, 1948)|socialist]] candidate Karappan by a margin of 282 votes.<ref name=ecitc52/> Ayyappan was the sole winning candidate of the Cochin Party.<ref name=ecitc52/><br />
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In the subsequent [[1954 Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly election]] he contested the Wadakkanchery reserved seat as a [[Communist Party of India]] candidate.<ref name=mtu/><ref>Fisher, Margaret Welpley, and Bondurant, Joan Valérie. ''[https://www.google.at/books/edition/The_Indian_Experience_with_Democratic_El/wg82AAAAIAAJ The Indian Experience with Democratic Elections]''. University of California, 1956. p. 9</ref> He retained the seat, obtaining 25,487 votes against 21,885 votes for the [[Indian National Congress]] candidate Koman.<ref name=ecitc54>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1954/StatRep_TravCochin_1954.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1954 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF TRAVANCORE COCHIN]''</ref><br />
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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.<ref name=ecikl57>Election Commission of India. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150424183901/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_Kerala_1957.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1957 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF KERALA]''</ref> In the Kerala Legislative Assembly, he was the chairman of the Committee on Petitions for the periods of 1957-1958 and 1958-1959.<ref name=nsa/> He lost the Wadakkanchery seat in the [[1960 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]], obtaining 44,199 votes.<ref name=ecikl60>Election Commission of India. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150424211750/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1960/StatRep_Kerala_1960.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1960 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF KERALA]''</ref> C.C. Ayyappan died later the same year.<ref name=nsa/><br />
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