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The '''All India United Kisan Sabha''' was a peasants organization in [[India]]. The AIUKS was founded around the late 1930s by Swami [[Sahajanand Saraswati]].<ref name="Pradhan2018">{{cite book|author=Ramchandra Pradhan|title=The Struggle of My Life: Autobiography of Swami Sahajanand|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=juF1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT425|date=25 September 2018|publisher=OUP India|isbn=978-0-19-909655-8|page=425}}</ref><ref name="Das1982">{{cite book|author=Arvind N. Das|title=Agrarian Movements in India: Studies on 20th Century Bihar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GL_yRdwbQP8C&pg=PR15|year=1982|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-7146-3216-2|page=15}}</ref> Sahajanand had broken away from the [[All India Kisan Sabha]] in 1945, being opposed to the increasing communist domination of the movement.<ref name="Congress2000">{{cite book|author=Indian History Congress|title=Proceedings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bQ9DAAAAYAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Indian History Congress|page=835}}</ref><ref name="Sankhdher1983">{{cite book|author=M. M. Sankhdher|title=Framework of Indian Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UBYmAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Gitanjali Publishing House|page=286}}</ref> To form the new AIUKS, Sahajanand gathered [[Congress Socialist Party]] members and other [[Indian National Congress]] left-wing elements.<ref name="Congress2000"/>

AIUKS had similar demands as the ''All India Kisan Sabha''.<ref name=b/> 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''<nowiki/>'.<ref name="Das1982"/><ref name="HauserPinch2008">{{cite book|author1=Walter Hauser|author2=William R. Pinch|author3=University of Virginia. Center for South Asian Studies|title=Speaking of peasants: essays on Indian history and politics in honor of Walter Hauser|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WYoUAQAAIAAJ|date=30 June 2008|publisher=Manohar Publishers & Distributors|isbn=978-81-7304-746-6|page=210}}</ref> It sought to abolish landlordism and curb the power of moneylenders.<ref name=b>Gupta, Rakesh Kumar. ''[https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/113916/10/10_chapter%205.pdf Peasant struggles : a case study of Bihar]''</ref> Jadunandan Sharma was the general secretary of AIUKS.<ref name="Bhattacharyya1992">{{cite book|author=Dipankar Bhattacharyya|title=Peasant movements in Bengal and Bihar, 1936-47|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s8m1AAAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Rabindra Bharati University|page=209}}</ref><ref name="Hauser2019">{{cite book|author=Walter Hauser|title=The Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha, 1929-1942: A Study of an Indian Peasant Movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tn-JDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT243|date=22 February 2019|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-00-000722-0|page=243}}</ref>

AIUKS had a few strongholds in [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Bihar]], but was a marginal force in other parts of [[India]].<ref name="Congress2000"/> AIUKS was closely linked to the [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] Party in [[Bihar]], but the party didn't follow the AIUKS space to develop further.<ref name="Damodaran1992">{{cite book|author=Vinita Damodaran|title=Broken promises: popular protest, Indian nationalism, and the Congress Party in Bihar, 1935-1946|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_W9uAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=310}}</ref><ref name="Breman2007">{{cite book|author=Jan Breman|title=Labour Bondage in West India: From Past to Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VCPFAAAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-568521-3|pages=154–155}}</ref> Sahajanand died soon after the foundation of AIUKS, which weakened the movement.<ref name="Das1982"/><ref name="Breman2007"/><ref name="Sharma1995">{{cite book|author=Sadhna Sharma|title=States Politics in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i0HdDbdKa8UC&pg=PA98|year=1995|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-7099-619-4|page=98}}</ref>

AIUKS fielded two candidates in the [[Indian general election, 1951|1951-1952 Lok Sabha parliamentary election]]; Shiva Prasad Sinha contested a seat in Gaya East, obtaining 37,351 votes (8.98%) and Chandradeo Sharma contested the Gaya North seat, obtaining 22,903 votes (17.93%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[https://ceo.gujarat.gov.in/StatisticalInformationAll/LoksabhaElection/LE1951.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1951 TO THE FIRST LOK SABHA]''</ref> The organization fielded 20 candidates in the [[1952 Bihar Legislative Assembly election]]. Together they obtained 78,695 votes (0.82% of the votes in the state, an average of 11.05% in the seats they contested).<ref name=a>Election Commission of India. ''[https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3886-bihar-1951/ Bihar 1951]''</ref> AIUKS was the second-most voted party in four constituencies; the [[Patna City]] West cum [[Naubatpur]] (two seat constituency), [[Pakri Barawan|Pakribarawan]] cum [[Warisaliganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Warisaliganj]] (two seat constituency, AIUKS had Januandan Sharma as one of its candidates), [[Rajauli]] cum [[Wazirganj]] (two seat constituency, AIUKS fielded only one candidate) and Sahibganj (one seat constituency, AIUKS candidate obtained 32.70% of the vote).<ref name=a/> The [[Election Commission of India]] recognized AIUKS as a state party in [[Bihar]].<ref name=a/>

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->Arjun Madathiparambil Muraleedharan at 08:28, 11 December 2021