The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS),or All India Kisan Sabha,is the peasants front of Communist Party of India (Marxist),and works for farmers rights,peasants rights and anti-feudal movement in India.
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a public major research university located in New Delhi,India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru,India's first Prime Minister. The university is known for leading faculties and research emphasis on social sciences and applied sciences.
All India Kisan Sabha,is the peasant or farmers' wing of the Communist Party of India,an important peasant movement formed by Sahajanand Saraswati in 1936.
The Students' Federation of India (SFI) is an Indian left-wing student organisation politically aligned to the ideologies of independence,democracy and socialism but is often labelled as the student wing of CPI(M). Currently,V. P. Sanu and Mayukh Biswas are elected as the All India President and General Secretary,respectively.
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) (transl. All India Students' Council) is a right-wing all India student organisation affiliated to the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Chandrashekar Prasad,popularly known as Chandu and Comrade Chandrashekhar was a student leader and later an activist affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. He graduated from the Jawaharlal Nehru University,and served as the president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union for two terms. Prasad played a key role in the development of All India Students Association.
Rajnath Singh is an Indian politician and lecturer who is serving as the 29th Defence Minister of India since 2019. He is currently the deputy Leader of the House,Lok Sabha since 2014. He was the 8th President of Bharatiya Janata Party from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2014. He has previously served as the 19th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 2000 to 2002 and a Cabinet Minister for Road Transport and Highways in the Vajpayee Government from 1999 to 2000 and the minister of Agriculture from 2003 to 2004. He was the 30th Home Minister in the First Modi Ministry from 2014 to 2019,and also was the first to serve in position born after the country's independence in 1947. He is a veteran leader of the BJP who started his career as a RSS Swayamsevak. He is an advocate of the party's Hindutva ideology. He has also served the party in the Uttar Pradesh state from where he started his political career. He was the President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha from 1988 to 1990.He was a member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Haidergarh twice,being Chief minister. He was a member of Lok Sabha from Lucknow since 2014 and Ghaziabad from 2009 to 2014. He was also a member of Rajya Sabha from 2002 to 2008 and from 1994 to 2001.
V. Gowthaman is a Tamil film director and actor. He has directed few Tamil films. These include Magizhchi,Kanave Kalaiyadhe. He has also directed the famous thriller biography serials of Auto Shankar and Veerappan in the name of Auto Sankar and Santhanakkaadu in Makkal TV. He is preparing to direct a new film based on Neela Padmanaban's novel. He has participated in Jallikatu demonstration in Chennai.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union or JNUSU is a students' union at Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi.
Najeeb Ahmed was a first-year M.Sc. biotech student at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi,India,who went missing from his hostel on the university campus under suspicious circumstances on 15 October 2016.
Events in the year 2018 in the Republic of India.
Kisan Rally or Kisan Long March was a large scale protest march by farmers in the Indian state of Maharashtra,organized by the All India Kisan Sabha,the peasants front of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Around 60,000 to 70,000 farmers marched a distance of 200 km from Nashik to Mumbai to gherao the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha. The peaceful march came to a conclusion on March 12,2018,after the Government of Maharashtra gave assurances for fulfillment of said demands. These assurances however,were not executed which resulted in Kisan Long March 2 which commenced on February 27,2019,but was suspended soon after.
Umar Khalid is an Indian former research scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University,former leader of Democratic Students' Union (DSU) in JNU. He was allegedly involved in the Jawaharlal Nehru University sedition row and is an accused under the UAPA law. Khalid is also associated with United Against Hate,a campaign founded along with Nadeem Khan in July 2017 in response to the series of lynchings.
The Citizenship Amendment Act (Bill) protests,also known as the CAA Protest,CAB Protest or CAA and NRC protests,occurred after the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was enacted by the Government of India on 12 December 2019. The move sparked a widespread national and overseas ongoing protests against the act and its associated proposals of the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The protests first began in North-Eastern state of Assam and spread swiftly in other states such as Delhi,Meghalaya,Arunachal Pradesh,and Tripura on 4 December 2019. Protests broke out rapidly across the country,although the concerns of the protesters vary.
P. Krishna Prasad is the finance secretary of All India Kisan Sabha and the former CPI(M) MLA from Sulthan Bathery. He is also the chairman of Brahmagiri Development Society,a worker –peasant cooperative in Kerala.
The Indian agriculture acts of 2020,often termed the Farm Bills,were three acts initiated by the Parliament of India in September 2020. The Lok Sabha approved the bills on 17 September 2020 and the Rajya Sabha on 20 September 2020. The President of India,Ram Nath Kovind,gave his assent on 27 September 2020.
The 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest was a protest against three farm acts that were passed by the Parliament of India in September 2020. The acts,often called the Farm Bills,had been described as "anti-farmer laws" by many farmer unions,and politicians from the opposition who said that it would leave farmers at the "mercy of corporates". The protests were largely non-violent. The protests also demanded the creation of a minimum support price (MSP) bill,to ensure that corporates cannot control the prices. The Union Government,however,maintained that the laws would make it effortless for farmers to sell their produce directly to big buyers,and stated that the protests are based on misinformation. Related endemic legacy issues include farmer suicides and low farmer incomes. Despite India being largely self-sufficient in foodgrain production and having welfare schemes,hunger and nutrition remain serious issues,with India ranking as one of the worst countries in the world in food security parameters.
Events in the year 2021 in India
The 2021 Farmers' Republic Day protest was a protest on 26 January 2021 at Delhi. Part of the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest,it turned violent when a group of protestors deviated from the parade to storm the Red Fort. The protest took place on the 72nd Republic Day against the decision by Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to implement three farm acts.
