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'''Sant Singh Yusuf''' was an [[India]]n [[trade union]]ist and politician. <br />
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In the 1920 he organised cotton mill workers unions in [[Delhi]] and [[Bombay]].<ref name="Pandey1970"/> His adopted name combined his paternal Hindu name Sant Singh and Maulana Yusuf, a Muslim alias he had used whilst in clandestine activities in the 1930s.<ref name="Molund1988">{{cite book|author=Stefan Molund|title=First We are People--: The Koris of Kanpur Between Caste and Class|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8vItAAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Department of Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm|isbn=978-91-7146-701-0|page=63}}</ref> The [[Communist Party of India]] sent Sant Singh ''alias'' Mohammed Yusuf to [[Kanpur]] in 1936, to become a trade union organiser there.<ref name=ssybio1>Pandey, S. M. ''[https://www.jstor.org/stable/27760757 Ideological Conflict in the Kanpur Trade Union Movement, 1934-1945]''. ''Indian Journal of Industrial Relations'', vol. 3, no. 3, 1968, pp. 243–268. JSTOR. Accessed 6 Sept. 2020.</ref> On September 9, 1936 he led over 2,000 workers at a strike at the Atherton West Cotton Mills.<ref name=ssybio1/><ref name="Pandey1970">{{cite book|author=Shiva Mohan Pandey|title=As Labour Organizes: A Study of Unionism in the Kanpur Cotton Textile Industry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1XAEAAAAMAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Shri Ram Centre for Industrial Relations|page=47}}</ref><br />
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Yusuf served as general secretary of the Kanpur Mazdoor Sabha 1937-1938 during the presidency of [[Harihar Nath Shastri]] and during the 1937 general strike.<ref name="Brass1965">{{cite book|author=Paul R. Brass|title=Factional Politics in an Indian State: The Congress Party in Uttar Pradesh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KulsjpUIxeUC&pg=PA197|year=1965|publisher=University of California Press|pages=137–138|id=GGKEY:FH10XD57FZH}}</ref> Yusuf was elected president of the Kanpur Mazdoor Sabha in 1938, supported by coalition of communist and anti-Shastri [[Indian National Congress]] members.<ref name="Brass1965"/> At the August 21, 1938 KMS assembly Yusuf obtained 70 votes against 44 for the [[Congress Socialist Party|Congress Socialist]] Shastri.<ref name=ssybio1/><br />
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Yusuf ran as a candidate for the [[Kanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kanpur seat]] in the [[1952 Indian general election]], finishing in third place with 22.1% of the votes.<ref>''Economic & Political Weekly''. ''[https://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/1962_14/28-29-30/ii__an_industrial_labour_constituency_kanpur.pdf II An Industrial Labour Constituency: Kanpur]''</ref> He led the 1955 strike in Kanpur.<ref name=turssy/><br />
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Yusuf won the Kanpur II seat in the [[1962 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]], obtaining 23,119 votes (34.54%).<ref name=up62>Election Commission of India. ''[https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3244-uttar-pradesh-1962/ Uttar Pradesh 1962]''</ref> S.S. Yusuf finished in third place in the [[Govind Nagar (assembly constituency)|Govind Nagar seat]] in the [[1967 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]], obtaining 9,907 votes (17.89%).<ref name=up67>Election Commission of India. ''[https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3246-uttar-pradesh-1967/ Uttar Pradesh 1967]''</ref> He won the Govind Nagar seat in the [[1974 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]].<ref name="Reed1974ssy">{{cite book|author=Sir Stanley Reed|title=The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LAcfAQAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Company|page=675}}</ref><br />
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As of the mid-1970s he served as the President of the Uttar Pradesh Trade Union Congress.<ref>{{cite book|title=Amity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ppAEL1mUjqAC|year=1975|publisher=Indo-Soviet Cultural Society.|page=8}}</ref> He served as vice president of the [[All India Trade Union Congress]].<ref name=turssy/><br />
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Sant Singh Yusuf died in Kanpur on June 6, 1982 after protracted illness, at the age of 76.<ref name="Kaul1978">{{cite book|author=Vimla Kaul|title=India Since Independence: Chronology of Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eCgKAQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Sagar Publications|page=1655}}</ref><ref name=turssy>{{cite book|title=Trade Union Record|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H3HtAAAAMAAJ|year=1982|publisher=All-India Trade Union Congress|page=8}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Indian trade unionists]]<br />
[[Category:Communist Party of India politicians from Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1962–1967]]<br />
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1974–1977]]<br />
[[Category:1982 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:1906 births]]<br />
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