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V. M. Ummer Master

Indian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ24204724 ↗
Source-derived summary

V. M. Ummer Master is an Indian politician and social activist from Kozhikode district. He is a member of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).

Between 2011 and 2016, Ummer Master served as the MLA of the Koduvally constituency, which he had won by a margin of 16,552 votes. During his tenure, he became one of 14 MLAs to achieve a perfect attendance record. In the 2006 and 2016 legislative assembly elections, he contested the Thiruvambady constituency but was defeated both times by CPI (M) candidate George M. Thomas.

Editorial summary

“V. M. Ummer Master” enters the record as indian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ummer, Master and Indian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2016, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ummer, Master and Indian.
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“V. M. Ummer Master” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ummer, Master and Indian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24204724. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011, 2016 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “V. M. Ummer Master” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.