Bharatiya Kisan Sangh

India is an agriculture predominant country. Farmers and agriculture, as well as agro-based businesses, are the main strength of our nation. Indian nation’s expression cannot be visualized without farmer and agriculture. In spite of such good growth and development all around the world, the Indian village based farmer is feeling cheated and helpless. He seems to have been left behind in the pace of development. Many organizations of Nation are trying to rectify this anomaly but most of them are either mouthpiece of some individual (or individuals), or either associated with political parties. These are using farmers to meet their own selfish ends or to fulfil high personal ambitions. The need of the hour at present is to have a non-political organization which can awaken the farmers towards creatively achieving their just rights without forgetting their duties as citizens of the country.

Introduction

Realizing above situation and need, nation’s great thinker of international repute the Right Honorable Dattopantji Thengdi made great efforts to raise an organization of Indian farmers with non-political nationalist ideology.

Under the able guidance of Shri Thengdiji, Shri Bhau Saheb Bhaskuteji as the guiding soul, formed for the first time Bhartiya Kisan Sangh in Madhya Pradesh in 1978 and began its activities after getting the organization duly registered. The first meeting and the registration took place in the Kasera Dharamsala of Hoshangabad district. Next year Shri Bhaskuteji travelled the whole nation length and breadth over motivated 650 farmer representatives and organized their first conference at Kota (Rajasthan) on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of March 1979. In this very conference the all India organization of Indian farmers – The “Bhartiya Kisan Sangh” was established on 4th March by Shri Thengdiji. On this very occasion, Shri Thengdiji declared emphatically and in clear words that this “Organization would be a non-political body of the farmers, for the farmers and by the farmers”

Steadfastly working according to the opening declarations given above, the Bhartiya Kisan Sangh is progressing positively and at present is the nations largest organization of farmers.