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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Amarjeet Kaur<br />
| image = Amarjeet Kaur at Workers' Mahapadav in 2017.png<br />
| birth_place = [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], India<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1952|4|2}}<br />
| residence = <br />
| nationality = <br />
| office = General Secretary of the [[All India Trade Union Congress]]<br />
| term_start = 11 December 2017<br />
| term_end = <br />
| predecessor = [[Gurudas Dasgupta]]<br />
| successor = <br />
| party = [[Communist Party of India]]<br />
| occupation = [[Trade unionist]], Politician<br />
| education = MSc Physics, LLB<br />
| alma_mater = [[University of Delhi]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Amarjeet Kaur''' (Born on 2 April 1952) is an Indian politician and National Secretary of the [[Communist party of India]].<ref>{{cite web |title=CPI asks state govts not to enact Centre’s 4 labour codes |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/cpi-asks-state-govts-not-to-enact-centres-4-labour-codes/articleshow/121936986.cms |website=The Times of India |date=10 March 2025 |access-date=6 October 2025}}</ref> She is General Secretary of the [[All India Trade Union Congress]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Amarjeet Kaur’s speech: A scathing attack on labour laws, BJP-RSS and the Modi government |url=https://theazadi.in/amarjeet-kaurs-speech-a-scathing-attack-on-the-policies-of-the-bjp-rss-and-the-modi-government/ |website=The Azadi |publisher=The Azadi |date=28 January 2026}} </ref><br />
She is the first woman in Independent India to be at the helm of one of the central trade unions, after [[Maniben Kara]]’s election as AITUC General Secretary in 1936.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.labourfile.com/section-detail.php?aid=580#|title=Amarjeet Kaur: The Trade Unionist Who Broke Gender Barriers|website=www.labourfile.com}}</ref><br />
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Kaur went on to become the second woman general secretary of the [[All India Students Federation]] (AISF) for seven years from 1979 and General Secretary of [[National Federation of Indian Women]] (NFIW) from 1999 to 2002.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aisf.org.in/past-leadership-conferences.php|title=AISF – Official|website=www.aisf.org.in}}</ref> She was AITUC National Secretary from 1994 to 2017. While a student, she was jailed in Delhi for 10 days in 1972 for participating in a CPI protest over price-rise, and for four days in 1977 for a joint Jamia-JNU-Delhi University students’ protest over Aligarh Muslim University riots.<br />
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