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S.S. YusufSant Singh Yusuf was an Indian trade unionist and politician. In the 1920s he organised cotton mill workers unions in Delhi and Bombay.[1] 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.[2] The Communist Party of India sent Sant Singh alias Mohammed Yusuf to Kanpur in 1936, to become a trade union organiser there.[3] On 9 September 1936 he led over 2,000 workers at a strike at the Atherton West Cotton Mills.[3][1] 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.[4] Yusuf was elected president of the Kanpur Mazdoor Sabha in 1938, supported by coalition of communist and anti-Shastri Indian National Congress members.[4] At the 21 August 1938 KMS assembly Yusuf obtained 70 votes against 44 for the Congress Socialist Shastri.[3] Yusuf ran as a candidate for the Kanpur seat in the 1952 Indian general election, finishing in third place with 22.1% of the votes.[5] He led the 1955 strike in Kanpur.[6] Yusuf won the Kanpur II seat in the 1962 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, obtaining 23,119 votes (34.54%).[7] S.S. Yusuf finished in third place in the Govind Nagar seat in the 1967 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, obtaining 9,907 votes (17.89%).[8] He won the Govind Nagar seat in the 1974 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.[9] As of the mid-1970s he served as the President of the Uttar Pradesh Trade Union Congress.[10] He served as vice president of the All India Trade Union Congress.[6] Sant Singh Yusuf died in Kanpur on 6 June 1982 after protracted illness, at the age of 76.[11][6] References
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