All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane)
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The All India Kisan Sabha (Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha) (AIKS), or All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane), is the peasants front of
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, and works for farmers rights, peasants rights and anti-feudal movement in India. It is sometimes referred to as All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane), to distinguish it from the AIKS of
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- the AIKS (Ajoy Bhavan). All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane) was previously known as All India Kisan Sabha (Ashoka Road).


Organisation

The address of AIKS is 36, Canning Lane,
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. * National President: Ashok Dhawale * National General Secretary: Vijoo Krishnan * National Finance Secretary P. Krishna Prasad


Membership development chart

''This chart uses the Indian numeral system''


Activities


Protest against three Agri-bills

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. * 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. * 24 January 2021: 20,000 farmers’ vehicle march from Golfclub Maidan in Nashik to Mumbai, Maharashtra.


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.). Published by Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd., 1998. .
(pp. 1–10), by O. P. Ralhan.
Published by Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2002. .


References


External links


AIKS Official website

Newsreport on 2003 AIKS conference in Jullundhur


{{Authority control Agricultural organisations based in India Communist Party of India (Marxist) Peasants Rural community development