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United Scheduled Castes Federation

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The United Scheduled Castes Federation (USCF) was a political party in Hyderabad State, India. USCF was founded by Subaiah and around 40 other erstwhile members of the Scheduled Castes Federation. USCF campaigned actively for rights for Dalits.[1] Ahead of the 1952 Hyderabad State Assembly election USCF allied itself with the Socialist Party of India.[2] USCF nominated four candidates, won together got 31,136 votes (0.60% of the votes in the state, 7.92% of the votes in the constituencies it contested). The most voted USCF candidate was Venkat Pratap Reddy in the Makthal Athmakur constituency, who got 18,890 votes (16.63% of the votes in the constituency).[3]

References

  1. ^ The Eastern Anthropologist. Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society, 2005. p. 177
  2. ^ The Eastern Anthropologist. Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society, 2005. p. 179
  3. ^ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF HYDERABAD
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