The Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS: Indian Farmers' Union) is an India

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s' representative organization affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or National Patriotic Organization), also known the Sangh, is a right-wing Hindu nationalist, paramilitary, volunteer, and allegedly militant organization for Hindu males in India...

. It is one of the well-known Sangh Parivar

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 organization. The BKS was established by Dattopantji Thengdi on March 4, 1979 at Kota

Kota, Rajasthan

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, Rajasthan

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. It has units in all states of India, with nearly 5 lakh

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 members. As of 2005, the General Secretary of the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh is Babasaheb Kathwale.

Stated aims

According to the website of the organization, the stated aims and objectives of the organization are to "unite and organize" the peasantry for the "betterment of their financial social, cultural, educational, conditions and cottage industrial activity by making available stable avenues of livelihood and survival", "to make available information and other related literature in respect of new innovations, improvements, methodologies" etc. in the field of agriculture and to encourage the farmers to adopt the same", "to emphasis to importance and suitability of age old agriculture technique, methodology and to combine the same with modern inventions so as to have ecological security of fertile soil, adequate water, seeds, cattle, plants and biodiversity", "to collect, experiment, innovate, improve and publicise the centuries old practices and usages in the agriculture field so as to benefit others as well as to protect the same from being patented" etc.

Activities

• On March 2005, the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh urged the Government of India
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   to set up a $
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  20-billion fund for the development of agriculture infrastructure in the nation.
• In 2007, the BKS showed resentment with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party
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   (BJP) government in Gujarat. Dissatisfied with the prevailing cotton prices, it set to lead a farmers' agitation in Saurashtra.