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'''All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS)''' (All India Farmers Union, also known as the '''Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha'''), is the peasant or farmers' wing of the [[Communist Party of India]], an important [[peasant movement]] formed by [[Sahajanand Saraswati]] in 1936.<ref>{{cite book | first = Śekhara  | last = Bandyopādhyāya | title = From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India  | publisher = [[Orient Longman]] | year = 2004 | isbn = 978-81-250-2596-2 | pages = 523 (at p 406)}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=75 Years of AIKS: A Saga of Glory |url=http://www.newageweekly.in/2011/06/75-years-of-aiks-saga-of-glory.html|website=newageweekly.in |language=en}}</ref>

Gradually the peasant movement intensified and spread across the rest of [[India]]. All these radical developments on the peasant front culminated in the formation of the All India Kisan Sabha at the [[Lucknow]] session of the [[Indian National Congress]] in April 1936, with [[Swami Sahajanand Saraswati]] elected as its first president.<ref>{{cite book

  | first = Śekhara  | last = Bandyopādhyāya

  | publisher = [[Orient Longman]] | year = 2004

  | isbn = 978-81-250-2596-2 | pages = 523 (at p 407)}}</ref> The other prominent members of this Sabha were [[N.G. Ranga]], [[Ram Manohar Lohia]], [[Jayaprakash Narayan]], [[Acharya Narendra Dev]] and Bankim Mukerji, and it involved prominent leaders like [[N.G. Ranga]], [[E.M.S. Namboodiripad]], [[Indulal Yagnik]], [[Sohan Singh Bhakna]], [[Z.A. Ahmed]], [[Pandit Karyanand Sharma]], [[Pandit Yamuna Karjee]], [[Pandit Yadunandan (Jadunandan) Sharma]], [[Rahul Sankrityayan]], [[P. Sundarayya]], [[Ram Manohar Lohia]], [[Yogendra Sharma]] and [[Bankim Mukherjee]]. The Kisan Manifesto, released in August 1936, demanded abolition of the [[zamindari]] system and cancellation of rural debts; in October 1937 it adopted the red flag as its banner.<ref name="ma">''Mahatma Gandhi'', by Sankar Ghose. Published by Allied Publishers, 1991. {{ISBN|81-7023-205-8}}. Page 262.</ref> Soon, its leaders became increasingly distant with Congress and repeatedly came in confrontation with Congress governments, in Bihar and United Province.

In the subsequent years, the movement was increasingly dominated by Socialists and Communists as it moved away from the Congress. By the 1938 [[Haripura]] session of the Congress, under the presidency of [[Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose]], the rift became evident<ref name="ma" /> and by May 1942, the [[Communist Party of India]], which was finally legalised by the government in July 1942,<ref>''Caste, Protest and Identity in Colonial India: The Namasudras of Bengal, 1872-1947'', by Shekhar Bandyopadhyaya. Routledge, 1997. {{ISBN|0-7007-0626-7}}. Page 233.</ref> had taken over All India Kisan Sabha all across India, including [[Bengal]] where its membership grew considerably.<ref name="sta">''States, Parties, and Social Movements'', by Jack A. Goldstone. Cambridge University Press, 2003. {{ISBN|0-521-01699-1}}. Page 192.</ref> It took on the Communist Party's line of People's War and stayed away from the [[Quit India Movement]] which started in August 1942, though this also meant losing its popular base. Many of its members defied party orders and joined the movement. Prominent members like [[N.G. Ranga]], Indulal Yagnik and [[Swami Sahajananda]] soon left the organisation, which increasingly found it difficult to approach the peasants without the watered-down approach of pro-British and pro-war, and increasing its pro-nationalist agenda, much to the dismay of the British Raj.<ref>''Peasants in India's Non-violent Revolution: Practice and Theory'', by Mridula Mukherjee. Published by SAGE, 2004. {{ISBN|0-7619-9686-9}}. Page 347.</ref>

|1<br/>(founder conference)||11 April 1936|| Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh ||[[Sahajanand Saraswati]]||[[N. G. Ranga]]

|23||28–31 December 1986||Barabanki Uttar Pradesh||[[Indradeep Sinha]] ||[[Y. V. Krishna Rao]]

|24||16–19 June 1993||Madhubani, Bihar||[[Y. V. Krishna Rao]]||[[Bhogendra Jha]]

|[[Y. V. Krishna Rao]]

|29||27–29 March 2015||Hyderabad, Telangana

*Twenty ninth conference held at Hyderabad, Telanagana on 27–29 March 2015

== Activities ==

 

* '''26 January 2021''': AIKS organized tractor rally in national capital.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/india/farmers-delhi-police-gear-up-for-republic-day-tractor-rally-unions-announce-parliament-march-on-1-feb-9238731.html|title=Farmers, Delhi Police gear up for Republic Day tractor rally; unions announce Parliament march on 1 Feb - India News, Firstpost|newspaper=[[First Post]]|date=2021-01-26|access-date=2021-01-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/delhi-police-flags-threat-to-farmers-tractor-rally-on-january-26-121012500005_1.html|title=Delhi Police flags threat to farmers' tractor rally on January 26|newspaper=[[Business Standard, India]]|publisher=Agencies|date=2021-01-24|access-date=2021-01-26}}</ref>

*'''2 October 2018''': AIKS organized march of farmers at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-kisan-krant-march-aiks-terms-police-action-as-barbaric-says-centre-s-acceptance-of-demands-hoax-2670818|title=Kisan Krant March: AIKS terms police action as 'barbaric'; says Centre's acceptance of demands 'hoax'}}</ref>