The Wahikar Union was a peasants organization in

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

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. It was founded in the mid-1970s and functioned as a mass organization of the

Punjab Communist Revolutionary Committee Punjab Communist Revolutionary Committee, originally the Bhatinda District Committee of AICCCR. The committee was one of the sections that broke away when AICCCR founded CPI(M-L). In June 1976 PCRC merged with UCCRI(ML). See also *Wahikar Unio ...

(later the UCCRI(ML)). The Wahikar Union organized a militant mass protest in

Jagraon Jagraon is a city and a municipal council, a rural police district and a sub-division of the Ludhiana district in the Indian state of Punjab. Jagraon is more than three centuries old. It has been thought that the city's original name was Jagar ...

in 1974. Police opened fire on the demonstration, killing one peasant. Later in the same year, on 26 November, an armed demonstration was organized jointly in

Bhatinda Bathinda is a city and municipal corporation in Punjab, India. The city is the administrative headquarters of Bathinda District. It is located in northwestern India in the Malwa Region, west of the capital city of Chandigarh and is the fifth l ...

by Wahikar Union, Punjab Students Union and Bharat Naujavan Sabha. The rally was dispersed by police forces. Several leaders of the protest were arrested. By 1982 the Wahikar Union had become defunct.Judge, Paramjit S.
Insurrection to Agitation: The Naxalite Movement in Punjab
'. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1992. p. 144

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{{reflist Socialist organisations in India Indian agriculture and forestry trade unions Organisations based in Punjab, India 1970s establishments in Punjab, India Organizations established in the 1970s