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'''Agragami Adivasi Samiti''' ("Forward Tribal Association"; {{lang-bn|অগ্রগামী আদিবাসী সমিতি}}) is an organisation for [[Adivasi]] people in [[West Bengal]], [[India]]. The organisation is linked to the [[All India Forward Bloc]].<ref>"[http://pd.cpim.org/2010/1226_pd/12262010_3.html CPI(M) Condemns Killing of Forward Bloc Activists] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615152550/http://pd.cpim.org/2010/1226_pd/12262010_3.html |date=2011-06-15 }}". Statement of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on 17 December 2010. ''People's Democracy''. Vol. XXXIV, No. 52, 26 December 2010. Retrieved 1 January 2011.</ref>

==History==
The organisation was founded at a convention in [[Bankura]] January 28-29, 2009. The Bankura convention elected [[Jatin Soren]] and [[Nishikanta Mehta]] as joint presidents and [[Biswanath Kisku]] and [[Rebati Bhattacharya]] as joint general secretaries, as leaders of a 39-member State Committee. The Bankura convention adopted a twenty-one point list of demands; that the Forest Dweller Act provisions on the right to water-forest-land be implemented, that tribal certificates be given to all Adivasi families, reservation of seat in the Development Committees in Adivasi villages, that landless Adivasi families be given government lands; providing ration cards for Adivasis, development of the [[Ol Chiki script]], institution of a 500 [[Indian rupee|rupee]] pension for poor handicapped persons, free medical centres, agricultural aid, drinking water, electricity and compulsory primary education in all Adivasi villages, stipends for forming cooperatives and self-help groups and development of cottage industries.<ref>"[http://www.forwardbloc.org/www/TOWARDS%20SOCIALISM_files/TS%20February%202009.htm Tribal Peoples' Convention At West Bengal] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110321203731/http://www.forwardbloc.org/www/TOWARDS%20SOCIALISM_files/TS%20February%202009.htm |date=March 21, 2011 }}". ''Towards Socialism''. February 2009. Retrieved 1 January 2011.</ref>

==Incidents==
On 16 December 2010 seven activists of Agragami Adivasi Samiti were killed by the [[Communist Party of India (Maoist)]].<ref name="gan"/><ref name="hin"/> The seven were abducted from four separate villages in [[Purulia District]]. The killed had been prominent members of the organization locally.<ref name="gan"/><ref name="hin"/> Following the killings, the CPI (Maoist) distributed posters claiming that the seven victims had aided security services. The murders were condemned by the All India Forward Bloc and the [[CPI(M)|CPI (Marxist)]]. The All India Forward Bloc organised a 24-hour [[hartal|bandh]] in Purulia District in protest.<ref name="gan">"[http://ganashakti.com/news-storage/news-details/article/seven-fb-adivasi-leaders-killed-by-maoists.html Seven FB Adivasi Leaders killed by Maoists]". ''Ganashakti''. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101043806/http://ganashakti.com/news-storage/news-details/article/seven-fb-adivasi-leaders-killed-by-maoists.html |date=1 January 2011 }}</ref><ref name="hin">"[http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article959012.ece Left parties condemn Purulia killings] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222060556/http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article959012.ece |date=2010-12-22 }}". ''[[The Hindu]]''. 18 December 2010. Retrieved 1 January 2011.</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Organisations based in West Bengal]]
[[Category:All India Forward Bloc]]
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