S.S. Yusuf

Sant Singh Yusuf was an Indian trade unionist and politician.

In the 1920s he organised cotton mill workers unions in Delhi and Bombay. The Communist Party of India sent Sant Singh alias Mohammed Yusuf to Kanpur in 1936, to become a trade union organiser there. On 9 September 1936 he led over 2,000 workers at a strike at the Atherton West Cotton Mills.

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. Yusuf was elected president of the Kanpur Mazdoor Sabha in 1938, supported by coalition of communist and anti-Shastri Indian National Congress members. He led the 1955 strike in Kanpur. 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%). He won the Govind Nagar seat in the 1974 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.

As of the mid-1970s he served as the President of the Uttar Pradesh Trade Union Congress. He served as vice president of the All India Trade Union Congress.