All India United Kisan Sabha
The All India United Kisan Sabha was a peasants organization in India. The AIUKS was founded around the late 1940s by Swami Sahajanand Saraswati.[1][2] Sahajanand had broken away from the All India Kisan Sabha in 1945, being opposed to the increasing communist domination of the movement.[3][4] To form the new AIUKS, Sahajanand gathered Congress Socialist Party members and other Indian National Congress left-wing elements.[3]
AIUKS had similar demands as the All India Kisan Sabha.[5] The organisation demanded comprehensive agrarian reform, redistribution of lands to poor peasants and the nationalization of waterways, lands and 'all sources of energy and wealth'.[2][6] It sought to abolish landlordism and curb the power of moneylenders.[5] Jadunandan Sharma was the general secretary of AIUKS.[7][8]
AIUKS had a few strongholds in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, but was a marginal force in other parts of India.[3] AIUKS was closely linked to the Congress Party in Bihar, but the party didn't follow the AIUKS space to develop further.[9][10] Sahajanand died soon after the foundation of AIUKS, which weakened the movement.[2][10][11]
AIUKS fielded two candidates in the
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