All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane)
The All India Kisan Sabha (Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha) (AIKS), or All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane), is the peasants front of Communist Party of India (Marxist), and works for farmers rights and anti-feudal movement in India,[1] which traces its origin to All India Kisan Sabha founded in 1936.
It is sometimes referred to as All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane), to distinguish it from the AIKS of Communist Party of India - the AIKS (Ajoy Bhavan). All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane) was previously known as All India Kisan Sabha (Ashoka Road). Both the Kisan federations are derived from the All India Kisan Sabha started by Swami Sahajanand Saraswati in 1936.
Organisation
The address of AIKS is 36, Canning Lane, New Delhi.
- National President: Ashok Dhawale
- National Vice-president: Amra Ram, S Ramachandran Pillai, K Varadharajan, Madan Ghosh, K Balakrishnan, S Malla Reddy and SK Preeja (woman)
- National general secretary: Hannan Mollah
- National joint secretary: Vijoo Krishnan, NK Shukla, EP Jayarajan, Nripen Choudhary, KK Raghesh, Jitendra Choudhary, Amal Haldar and Badal Saroj [2]
Membership development chart
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 | 2,15,933 | 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 |
Further reading
- 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.). Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd. 1998. ISBN 978-81-7488-403-9.
- The Constitution of All India Kisan Sabha Encyclopaedia of Political Parties, by O. P. Ralhan, Published by Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2002. ISBN 81-7488-865-9. Page 1-10.
References
- AP agri body seeks aid to tenant farmers Archived 24 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine The Hindu, 14 November 2008.
- People's Democracy, 15 October 2017.