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.

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).

left|thumb|[[Jyoti Basu|Basu, Ranadive, Mukherjee, Basavapunnaiah, and Konar in the conference of AIKS held in Barsul, West Bengal in 1969]]

As a result, the CPI faction constitutes a parallel All India Kisan Sabha of its own by holding their 19th All India Conference at Amravati, Maharashtra, in January 1968. And the CPI(M) faction constitutes All India Kisan Sabha (36 Canning Lane) by holding its 19th All India Conference at Madurai, Tamil Nadu, on January 26–28, 1968. In Madurai, the conference amended its constitution and abolished AIKC as it rarely met. As there was no AIKC, the conference directly elected the CKC and office bearers for the first time. The conference elected A. K. Gopalan as its president, and Hare Krishna Konar was elected the general secretary. The conference also elected a 33-member CKC, including office bearers. On the last evening, a public rally was held at Madurai. A large number of peasants, agricultural workers, and working-class people attended the huge gathering. It was addressed by J. S. Lyallpuri, E. M. S. Namboodiripad, P. Ramamurthi, and others. A decision was taken to shift the central office. The Central Office of the Kisan Sabha was shifted from Delhi, 4 Ashoka Road, in April 1968, to Calcutta, first at 49 Lake Place and then to 36A Beniapukur Road, Calcutta 14.

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|-

! National Conference !! Date !! Place !! President !! General Secretary

|-

|19th||26–28 January 1968||Madurai

|rowspan=4|A. K. Gopalan

|rowspan=4|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

|rowspan=2|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

|rowspan=4|S. Ramachandran Pillai

|rowspan=4|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

|rowspan=2|Hannan Mollah

|-

|34th||3–6 October 2017||Hisar

|rowspan=2|Ashok Dhawale

|-

|35th||13–16 December 2022||Thrissur||Vijoo Krishnan

|}

Membership chart

This chart uses the Indian numeral system

{| cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 border=1

|- COLOUR="#FGHY00"

| 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

Protest against three Agri-bills

thumb|AIKS demonstrators in [[Ramlila Maidan|Ramlila Maidan, Delhi, on 2005]]

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.

References

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. .
  • AIKS Official website
  • AIKS Official X–Handle
  • AIKS Official Facebook
  • Newsreport on 2003 AIKS conference in Jullundhur
  • PRESS RELEASE BY NATIONAL FARMER UNION LEADERS