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]