All India Agricultural Workers Union

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.

A massive joint rally of the All India Kisan Sabha and the All India Agricultural Workers Union was held today at Desh Bhagat Yadgar Hall, Jalandhar.

Before the rally, Ashok Dhawale, President of the All India Kisan Sabha, Sukhwinder Singh Sekhon, Senior Vice-President of the All India Kisan Sabha Punjab, and Vikram Singh, Joint Secretary of the All India Agricultural Workers Union, along with other leaders, paid revolutionary tributes to veteran freedom fighter and associate of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Comrade Kishori Lal, by garlanding his statue.

Addressing the rally, Comrade Ashok Dhawale said that the BJP-RSS is rapidly advancing the agenda of communal and fascist forces in the country. These forces are trying to weaken the sharp struggles of farmers, workers, labourers, and other sections against communalism, fascism, and corporate houses. He emphasized that it is extremely necessary for the Left, progressive, democratic, and secular forces of the country to unite in order to confront these forces.

We stand with comrade Pinarayi Vijayan!

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Tripura Agricultural Workers Union Foundation Day.
Flags were hoisted in the morning in 10 zones in Udaipur subdivision. At 11 am, the state president of the organization, Com: Radha Ballabh Debnath, hoisted the red flag at the Udaipur subdivision office. The members present paid tribute to the martyrs by offering flowers.
A hall meeting was held on May 19, 2026 at 11.30 am on the occasion of the foundation day of the subdivision-based organization.

Tens of lakhs of agricultural and rural workers joined the MGNREGA Workers’ strike through protests, demonstrations, and memorandum submissions called by the Joint Platform of Agricultural and Rural Workers’ Unions and the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha.

On 15 May, in support of the striking MGNREGA Workers all over India, AIAWU, CITU, and AIKS conducted a joint demonstration outside BTR Bhawan. Com Venkat, General Secretary, AIAWU, Com Elamaram Kareem, General Secretary, CITU addressed the gathering.

News headlines in Kannada newspapers about the MGNREGA Workers' Strike on 15 May 2026.

MGNREGA Workers strike in Maharashtra. In various villages in the state, agricultural and rural workers gathered outside Panchayat offices to submit the memorandum demanding the roll back of VB-GRAM(G).

हरियाणा में खेत एवं ग्रामीण मजदूरों की मनरेगा हड़ताल का घेरा प्रभाव। सुर्ख़ियों में हड़ताल का ज़िक्र।