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Syed Hassan Abidi is an Indian politician. Syed Hassan hailed from a prominent Shia family from Hyderabad. [1] He was elected from the Hyderabad City constituency in the 1952 Hyderabad Legislative Assembly election as an independent candidate. [2] His candidature was supported by the communist People's Democratic Front. [1] He obtained 10,772 votes (46.89%) of the votes in the constituency. [2]

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India, also known as the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh largest country by area and with more than 1.3 billion people, it is the second most populous country and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

Peoples Democratic Front was a mass front of Communist Party of India in the Hyderabad State.

When the boundaries of the assembly constituencies were changed, the Shia-dominated areas of Hyderabad became part of the Malakpet constituency. Syed Hassan contested the Malakpet constituency as an independent (without communist support) in the 1957 and 1962 Andhra Pradesh assembly elections. [1] In 1957 he finished in third place, with 3,258 votes (20.38% of the votes in the constituency). [3] In 1962 he again finished in third place, obtaining 1,908 votes (8.29%). [4]

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Andhra Pradesh is one of the 29 states of India. Situated in the south-east of the country, it is the eighth-largest state in India, covering an area of 162,970 km2 (62,920 sq mi). As per the 2011 census, it is the tenth most populous state, with 49,386,799 inhabitants. The largest city in Andhra Pradesh is Visakhapatnam. Telugu, one of the classical languages of India, is the major and official language of Andhra Pradesh.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Economic and Political Weekly , Vol. 6, Eds. 15. Sameeksha Trust., 1971. p. 793
  2. 1 2 Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF HYDERABAD
  3. ↑ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1957 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ANDHRA PRADESH
  4. ↑ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ANDHRA PRADESH
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