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About M. M. Ebrahim
- Mudaliar Al-Haj Meerakuddy Mohamed Ebrahim (2 October 1896 – 1957) was a former Muslim Member of Parliament representing Pottuvil. At the 1st parliamentary election held in 1947 Ebrahim, as an Independent, in the seat of Pottuvil.
- He received 7,407 votes (55.9% of the total vote) defeating the only other candidate, A.
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- Razik (representing the United National Party), by 1,899 votes.
- Razik was a prominent Muslim leader and a founding member of the UNP, who had been denied the party's nomination for Colombo Central and was forced to contest Pottuvil, an area which he did not have a personal political base.
- In 1947 Razik was granted a seat in the Senate of Ceylon and was subsequently elected to parliament in the next parliamentary election.
- Ebrahim was one of only six Muslims elected to the first parliament of Ceylon.
- Later in his first term of office he joined the UNP. In the 1952 New Years Honours Ebrahim was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), for his public service to the Pottuvil electorate.He was re-elected at the 2nd parliamentary election held in May 1952 but was only just successful in defeating M.
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- Mustapha, the Federal Party candidate, by 559 votes.
- In 1954 Ebrahim was appointed parliamentary secretary to the Minister of External Affairs and Defence and in 1955 the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Local Government.
- He did not, owing to ill health, seek re-election at the 1956 parliamentary elections.
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