All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane)
Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha | |
Abbreviation | AIKS |
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Type | Peasant Organisation |
Legal status | Active |
Headquarters | Harkishan Singh Surjeet Bhavan, 36 Pandit Ravi Shankar Shukla Ln, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi, India–110001 |
Location | |
President | Ashok Dhawale |
General Secretary | Vijoo Krishnan |
Affiliations | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), or Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha, is the peasant front of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and works for farmer's rights, peasant rights, and anti-feudal movement in India.[1]
Structure and History
[edit]This organization is sometimes referred to as All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane), to distinguish it from the All India Kisan Sabha of Communist Party of India. All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane) was previously known as All India Kisan Sabha (Ashoka Road).
After the 1964 split in the Communist Party of India, A major section of the All India Kisan Sabha leaders were divided into the leftist fraction and the rightist fraction. The leaders of the Leftist fraction then founded the All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane) during their 19th conference. The 19th conference, which was also the founding session of the Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane), held at Madurai in Tamil Nadu on January 26–28, 1968.[2]
Conferences and office bearers
[edit]The 35th All India Conference held at Thrissur, Kerala from 13–16 December 2022 elected Vijoo Krishnan as the general secretary of All India Kisan Sabha. National president Ashok Dhawale and finance secretary P. Krishna Prasad retained their positions from the previous Hisar conference.[3]
National Conference | Year | Place | President | General Secretary |
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19th | 26–28 January 1968 | Madurai | A. K. Gopalan | Hare Krishna Konar |
20th | 30 October–3 November 1969 | Barsul | ||
21st | 23–26 September 1971 | Rurka Kalan | ||
22nd | 11–14 April 1974 | Sikar | ||
23rd | 30 March–1 April 1979 | Varanasi | Benoy Choudhury | K. Chathunni |
24th | 8–11 November 1982 | Midnapore | Udaraju Raman | Santimoy Ghosh |
25th | 17–19 May 1986 | Patna | Godavari Parulekar | N. Sankaraiah |
26th | 27–30 April 1989 | Khammam | Harkishan Singh Surjeet | Ram Narayan Goswami |
27th | 27–30 September 1992 | Hisar | N. Sankaraiah | |
28th | 19–20 November 1995 | Cuttack | Benoy Krishna Konar | S. Ramachandran Pillai |
29th | 5–8 March 1999 | Kozhikode | S. Ramachandran Pillai | K. Varadarajan |
30th | 6–9 March 2003 | Jalandhar | ||
31st | 28–31 January 2006 | Nashik | ||
32nd | 7–10 January 2010 | Guntur | ||
33rd | 24–27 July 2013 | Cuddalore | Amra Ram | Hannan Mollah |
34th | 3–6 October 2017 | Hisar | Ashok Dhawale | |
35th | 13–16 December 2022 | Thrissur | Vijoo Krishnan |
Membership chart
[edit]This chart uses the Indian numeral system
State/Union territory | 1993-94 | 1994-95 | 1995-96 | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999–2000 |
Andhra Pradesh | 2,11,465 | 1,37,100 | 2,25,137 | 2,25,234 | 1,00,808 | 2,15,930 | 1,00,000 |
Assam | 1,44,538 | 1,59,723 | 1,01,324 | 1,44,545 | 1,18,611 | 1,61,277 | 1,44,588 |
Bihar | 2,10,000 | 2,30,100 | 1,52,000 | 2,00,000 | 2,04,000 | 2,17,000 | 1,84,000 |
Gujarat | 13,000 | 9,140 | 11,500 | 6,000 | 6,000 | 8,400 | 10,440 |
Haryana | 14,500 | 12,500 | 12,300 | 13,000 | 15,000 | 14,100 | 16,150 |
Himachal Pradesh | 5,200 | 5,000 | 6,000 | 7,000 | 13,000 | 12,780 | 10,000 |
Jammu and Kashmir | 4,500 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 6,000 | 4,000 | 7,000 |
Karnataka | 52,000 | 75,000 | 89,633 | 92,568 | 67,160 | 73,515 | 70,775 |
Kerala | 10,05,760 | 12,26,488 | 11,91,666 | 13,23,562 | 13,33,620 | 17,66,606 | 19,45,366 |
Madhya Pradesh | 19,000 | 19,252 | 36,012 | 37,482 | 48,965 | 37,534 | 50,411 |
Maharashtra | 69,800 | 70,000 | 85,343 | 92,273 | 90,371 | 92,340 | 1,21,807 |
Manipur | 5,740 | 4,100 | 4,720 | 5,140 | 4,700 | 4,960 | - |
Odisha | 22,000 | 18,349 | 26,392 | 21,700 | 22,000 | 31,364 | 30,000 |
Punjab | 80,000 | 1,05,600 | 1,30,120 | 90,000 | 1,02,000 | 1,06,000 | 1,20,000 |
Rajasthan | 32,432 | 71,659 | 36,000 | 54,040 | 55,893 | 59,496 | 50,950 |
Sikkim | 500 | 1,600 | 2,000 | - | 1,600 | - | - |
Tamil Nadu | 2,50,000 | 2,50,000 | 2,46,289 | 3,00,000 | 2,71,355 | 3,00,000 | 4,01,029 |
Tripura K.S. | 1,01,000 | 1,11,920 | 1,26,500 | 2,12,000 (KS+GMP) | 1,21,500 | 1,38,000 | 1,35,650 |
Tripura G.M.P | 52,000 | 60,000 | 85,000 | see above | 92,000 | 92,000 | 70,000 |
Uttar Pradesh | 89,655 | 1,28,450 | 1,26,000 | 1,60,000 | 1,15,844 | 1,37,499 | 1,15,084 |
West Bengal | 99,54,652 | 1,05,38,499 | 1,11,06,406 | 1,14,59,519 | 1,00,55,121 | 1,12,18,075 | 1,10,11,153 |
Total: | 1,23,37,742 | 1,32,39,480 | 1,36,25,726 | 1,44,49,063 | 1,28,45,248 | 1,46,90,879 | 1,45,94,403 |
Activities
[edit]Protest against three Agri-bills
[edit]AIKS led nationwide protests against Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020 and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
- 26 January 2021: AIKS organized tractor rally in national capital.[5][6]
- 25 January 2021: 50,000 farmers from various regions of Maharashtra marched towards the Raj Bhavan and submitted its charter of demands to Governor Bhagat Singh Kosyari.[7]
- 24 January 2021: 20,000 farmers’ vehicle march from Golfclub Maidan in Nashik to Mumbai, Maharashtra.[8]
Further reading
[edit]- A History of the All India Kisan Sabha, by Md. Abdullah Rasul. Published by National Book Agency, 1974.
- All India Kisan Sabha (2 volumes), by O. P. Ralhan (ed.). Published by Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd., 1998. ISBN 978-81-7488-403-9.
- (pp. 1–10), by O. P. Ralhan. Published by Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2002. ISBN 81-7488-865-9.
References
[edit]- ^ AP agri body seeks aid to tenant farmers[usurped], The Hindu, 14 November 2008.
- ^ Mollah, Hannan (2018). An Outline History of All India Kisan Sabha. P. Sundarayya Memorial Trust and All India Kisan Sabha. pp. https://kisansabha.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/hannanbook.pdf.
- ^ AIKS (22 August 2023). "LEADERSHIP ELECTED AT THE 35TH CONFERENCE". kisansabha.org. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
- ^ Communist Party of India (Marxist). [1]
- ^ "Farmers, Delhi Police gear up for Republic Day tractor rally; unions announce Parliament march on 1 Feb". First Post. 26 January 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "Delhi Police flags threat to farmers' tractor rally on January 26". Business Standard, India. Agencies. 24 January 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "Farm Laws: 50,000 Maharashtra farmers will march towards Raj Bhavan on Monday". The New Indian Express. 24 January 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "AIKS organizes 20,000-strong vehicle March from Nashik to Mumbai". The Siasat Daily. 24 January 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2021.