All India Kisan Sabha

All India Kisan Sabha All India Kisan Sabha (अखिल भारतीय किसान सभा; AIKS), is the largest peasant organisation of India

All India Kisan Sabha (अखिल भारतीय किसान सभा; AIKS), is the largest national organisation representing peasants in India. The AIKS, which was formed at its first conference on April 11, 1936 at Lucknow, has a glorious 85-year history. It played a stellar role in arousing the peasantry against British imperialism in the movement for national freedom. It was able to unite various sections of the pea

santry in the struggle against feudalism, big traders and monopolists. The AIKS led historic peasant struggles in Telangana in Andhra Pradesh, Tebhaga in West Bengal, Punnapra-Vayalar and North Malabar in Kerala, Surma Valley in Assam and tribal movements in Tripura and Maharashtra. In the period after independence, it has continued to organise peasants against the anti-peasant policies of the government. These policies have acquired a particularly disastrous nature during the last three decades of neo-liberalism, leading to suicides of over 4 lakh debt-ridden peasants in the last 25 years. The strong peasant movement built by the AIKS has contributed to the formation of the Left-led state governments in West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura. The AIKS believes that a powerful agrarian movement has to be built on alternative policies centred on the interests of the poor peasants and agricultural workers, both of whom constitute the overwhelming majority of the Indian peasantry. The AIKS is clear that only a thoroughgoing agrarian revolution can truly solve the deep and growing crisis in Indian agriculture.

SKM organised a demonstration outside DC office in Sangrur, . The farmers' demands include rolling back the increase in...
03/06/2026

SKM organised a demonstration outside DC office in Sangrur, . The farmers' demands include rolling back the increase in diesel, petrol, and cooking gas prices; ensuring an adequate supply of urea and DAP fertilizers; restoring Punjab's permanent membership in the Bhakra Beas Management Board; increasing agricultural loan limits and providing sufficient credit; cancelling the proposed free trade agreement with the United States; fixing crop prices in accordance with the Swaminathan Commission's recommendations; providing a monthly pension of ₹10,000 to farmers and agricultural labourers; and implementing all previously accepted demands while addressing the remaining pending issues. Comrade Major Singh Punnewal from addressed the demonstration.

Duty-Free Cotton Imports Will Devastate Small and Marginal FarmersFarmers in Peril as Big Business Profiteers at their E...
02/06/2026

Duty-Free Cotton Imports Will Devastate Small and Marginal Farmers

Farmers in Peril as Big Business Profiteers at their Expense

The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) condemns the RSS-BJP-led Union government’s decision to suspend the 11% import duty on cotton from June 1 to October 30. This will put in peril lakhs of cotton farmers and workers who are already being heavily exploited by big business. The BJP-led NDA government has capitulated before the big business and sacrificed the interests of the farmers. It is bowing to global and imperial economic pressures, where trade liberalisation and free trade commitments are prioritised over the protection of Indian farmers and national agricultural imperatives. It is reported that India could import around 40 lakh bales of cotton this duty-free window of 5 months. This is bound to have an adverse impact on domestic cotton prices. It also will force a dependence on imports rather than promote self-reliance.

Cotton prices had risen in recent months (between February and April 2026), but this came after years of unstable prices, rising cultivation costs, and repeated losses faced by farmers. However, these prices fell by 3% soon after the duty exemption was announced, raising fears that farmers will once again bear the burden of protecting industry profits. There is also no clear empirical evidence of a serious cotton shortage in the country. Industry representatives themselves have publicly admitted that domestic cotton availability remains adequate.

In this situation, opening the door to cheaper imports exactly during the sowing season of May–June sends a distressing signal to farmers who are making major investments in seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, and labour, the costs of which are rising hugely. The majority of Indian cotton farmers are small and marginal and receive negligible state support when compared to American or Australian farmers. The suspension of the import duty may also hurt the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), which has already bought cotton from farmers at MSP. If imports push prices down, the CCI could be forced to sell cotton at lower rates, weakening farmer support systems over time.

At a time when the Indian rupee has been weakened because of the pro-imperial policies of the ruling class, imported cotton may not even be as economical or attractive to industries as claimed. More importantly, cotton farmers are already facing increasing uncertainty from changing weather patterns and possible El Niño-related rainfall disruptions, which have already affected other crops. Since over 65% of India’s cotton cultivation is rain-fed, farmers stand to face enormous risks this year in particular.

The AIKS demands that, instead of creating further uncertainty, the government should stand with farmers. The major cotton-growing belts of the country are infamous for debt-driven farm suicides. The priorities should be fair prices, stronger procurement, investment in better cotton, quality infrastructure, storage, and protection of farmers from both market as well as climate stress. The AIKS calls upon all cotton farmers and workers to intensify struggles against the anti-farmer move to slash import duty on cotton.

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Ashok Dhawale Vijoo Krishnan
President General Secretary

02/06/2026

Chhattisgarh Kisan Sabha का चंद्रमेढा समिति धरना प्रदर्शन जारी है जिसमें किसान एकत्रित हो रहे हैं अपने मांग को लेने के लिए

The 6th All India Conference of AIKS, held at Bihta, Bihar from May 29–31, 1942, marked an important phase in the resurg...
01/06/2026

The 6th All India Conference of AIKS, held at Bihta, Bihar from May 29–31, 1942, marked an important phase in the resurgence of the organised peasant movement during the turbulent years of the Second World War. With Indulal Yagnik elected President and Swami Sahajanand Saraswati re-elected General Secretary, the conference sought to rebuild and strengthen the Sabha after a period of repression and organisational difficulties.

The conference endorsed the struggle against fascism following the N**i invasion of the Soviet Union, called for the unity of progressive and anti-imperialist forces, and reaffirmed the central role of peasants in defending both their livelihoods and the nation. It demanded land for the tiller, debt relief, employment, and democratic rights, while stressing the need for Hindu–Muslim unity amid growing communal tensions. The Bihta Conference reflected AIKS's commitment to combining the fight against imperialism with the struggle for agrarian justice and peasant empowerment.

Oppose Adani-Leap India Duopoly in FCI's "Hub and Spoke" Silo Scheme Stop Corporate Take-Over of Public Food Security I...
01/06/2026

Oppose Adani-Leap India Duopoly in FCI's "Hub and Spoke" Silo Scheme

Stop Corporate Take-Over of Public Food Security Infrastructure



The recent expose by Newslaundry on the emerging duopoly in the Food Corporation of India’s (FCI) “Hub and Spoke” silo scheme is a matter of grave concern. The investigation by Newslaundry demonstrates clearly as to how, with the connivance of the RSS-BJP-led Union government, Adani Agri Logistics Ltd and Leap India Food & Logistics Private Ltd “together bagged 110 out of 134 silo contracts worth more than Rs 16,500 crore”. It is estimated that of the total 60 lakh metric tonnes of grains, nearly 46.5 lakh metric tonnes will be kept in silos owned by these companies. All India Kisan Sabha strongly condemns the facilitation of corporate take-over of Public Food Security Infrastructure



The FCI procures grain at Minimum Support Price (MSP) from farmers and distributes it to approximately 81 crore people under the National Food Security Act. The Rs 20,000 crore silo modernisation program launched by FCI is meant to massively redesign and modernise India's grain supply chain; done purportedly for "ensuring efficient and sustainable storage and movement of food grains." Given the strategic significance of food security, the FCI had originally suggested including an "anti-monopoly" clause to prevent any single company from cornering all projects. The investigation hints that, at the behest of Adani, NITI Aayog and the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) colluded in a crucial 2022 official meeting (May 13) of the Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC) to eliminate this "anti-monopoly" clause. The logic was that market forces should prevail and state intervention would act as an asymmetry.



The report shows that after this decisive state intervention for the corporates, Adani “won every single contract in the second round of Phase 1” of the silo modernisation program. “By Phase 2, a duopoly had emerged. Adani and Leap dominated India’s largest modern grain storage programme.” The investigation has detailed the surreptitious process—through the active collusion of different government agencies and institutions—which resulted in this frightening market concentration, violating the letter and spirit of even the ‘liberal’ competition laws. For instance, the Union government developed certain terms and conditions that would favour companies with “deep balance sheets,” thereby getting rid of public sector companies, small companies, cooperatives, and so on.



It is a well-known fact that imperialism and conniving Indian big business groups are keen to unleash predatory accumulation in the Indian agrarian sector. The role played by Adani in pushing the three black laws formulated by the Modi government, and the heroic resistance offered by the peasantry, is fresh in the rural social psyche. Leap India, specialising in agricultural logistics and storage, is said to be backed by powerful foreign private equity funds (the UK-backed Neev Fund and the Danish SGD Fund). The AIKS is of the firm opinion that this state-backed market concentration in FCI silos is a clandestine move by the RSS-BJP government to corporatise Indian agriculture.



The AIKS demands an immediate reinstatement of the "anti-monopoly" clause and a cap restricting any single corporate group's share of silo capacity. The AIKS also demands an inquiry by the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) into the role of the PPPAC in eliminating the "anti-monopoly" and other clauses that would have prevented market concentration. Strengthening FCI's own storage capacity through public investment, rather than long-term handovers to corporate monopolies, is the need of the hour. The AIKS calls upon the peasantry, agricultural workers, and all democratic forces to oppose this loot of our food security infrastructure.



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Vijoo Krishnan, General Secretary

Ashok Dhawale, President

31/05/2026

Farmers have been conducting a continuous agitation for around 443 days against the acquisition of nearly 9,600 acres of agricultural land in the Bidadi region for a proposed township/residential development project. The protest is being led by Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha (KPRS) and other farmer organisations.

30/05/2026

: ब्यारमंगला में किसानों के के नेतृत्व में पिछले 440 दिनों से लगातार आंदोलन जारी है। आंदोलनकारी किसान कांग्रेस-नीत राज्य सरकार द्वारा कर्नाटक के बिददि क्षेत्र में 9,600 एकड़ कृषि भूमि का अधिग्रहण कर आवासीय टाउनशिप विकसित करने की परियोजना को दी गई मंजूरी को रद्द करने की मांग कर रहे हैं।

भूमि संघर्ष में भाग लेने और आंदोलनरत किसानों के प्रति एकजुटता व्यक्त करने के लिए अखिल भारतीय किसान सभा (AIKS) ने संघर्ष स्थल तक मार्च किया। इस अवसर पर AIKS के राष्ट्रीय संयुक्त सचिव डी. रवींद्रन, राज्य महासचिव येवंत, अध्यक्ष बसवराज, पदाधिकारी नवीन कुमार, भरतराज और प्रभा तथा सीटू ( ) की प्रतिनिधि वरलक्ष्मी ने भाग लिया।

AIKS-AIAWU hold Impressive Punjab Convention at Jalandhar, Vow to Intensify StrugglesAn impressive statewide convention ...
30/05/2026

AIKS-AIAWU hold Impressive Punjab Convention at Jalandhar, Vow to Intensify Struggles

An impressive statewide convention was organised by the Punjab units of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and the All India Agricultural Workers Union (AIAWU) at the Desh Bhagat Yadgaar Hall at Jalandhar on 29 May 2026. Over 1,200 peasants and agricultural workers, including over 300 women, from all 23 districts of Punjab, participated.

The presidium comprised AIKS state president Major Singh Bhikhiwind and AIAWU state president Satpal Singh Banur. The main speakers from the Centre were AIKS national president Dr Ashok Dhawale and AIAWU national joint secretary Vikram Singh.

The main speakers from the state were AIKS senior state vice president Sukhwinder Singh Sekhon, AIAWU national vice president Bhoop Chand Channo, AIKS state secretary Baljit Singh Grewal, AIAWU state secretary Chamkaur Singh Kheri, AIKS state finance secretary Satnam Singh Baraich, AIAWU leader Bikram Singh, AIKS leaders Gurdarshan Singh Khaspur, Sukhpreet Singh Johal, Swaranjit Singh Dilon, and others.

The convention pinpointed the burning agrarian issues in Punjab that were severely affecting both peasants and agricultural workers. These included the terrible fuel and fertiliser crisis, refusal to give remunerative MSP and liberation from debt, scrapping of MNREGA and replacing it with the bogus Gram-G, smart metres and rising power costs, land rights for Abadkar peasants, no compensation for the severe floods last year, etc. Speakers came down heavily on the BJP-led central government which was aggravating all these issues with its neo-liberal, pro-imperialist, pro-corporate, and communal policies.

The vindictive ED raid ordered by the Modi regime on the house of the former Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan was strongly condemned.

The convention also criticised the AAP-led state government which, too, had failed the peasantry.

While concentrating even more on increasing independent struggles on local issues, it was also decided to make the 29 July joint SKM-CTUs national convention in Delhi, and the 10 August joint nationwide Jail Bharo struggle a massive success in every district of Punjab.

Before the convention, all the leaders garlanded the statue of the great freedom fighter and revolutionary, Pandit Kishori Lal, a comrade-in-arms of Shaheed Bhagat Singh. Pandit Kishori Lal spent 18 years of his life in jail in the same Lahore Conspiracy Case and after his release, became a prominent leader of the undivided CPI, and then of the CPI(M).

AIKS is looking to expand its social media presence!Volunteer with us and contribute through creatives, illustrations, d...
29/05/2026

AIKS is looking to expand its social media presence!

Volunteer with us and contribute through creatives, illustrations, design, video editing, photography, and other forms of visual storytelling. We’re looking for artists and people who create. Eligibility: you want to contribute to the vibrant Kisan movement in India!

Scan the QR code and fill out the form to join our creative front.

Link to the form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/139kwozVE-pGrYs541g5TM91adeVE7hARxIIU1RePG9E/edit

: In Bairamangala village of Ramanagara district, a continuous struggle has been going on for the past 440 days against...
29/05/2026

: In Bairamangala village of Ramanagara district, a continuous struggle has been going on for the past 440 days against the acquisition of more than 900 acres of agricultural land affecting 25 villages.

Expressing solidarity with this struggle, the Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha (affiliated to ) organized a massive rally in support of the movement.

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