AIKS CKC Meeting at Kannur Calls for making 9 July All India General Strike a Massive Success; Warns against Modi Govt’s Anti-Farmer Surrender to USA on Trade Agreement
The Central Kisan Committee (CKC) meeting of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) held from 28-30 June 2025 at the E K Nayanar Academy, Kannur, Kerala, decided to hold massive protests on 9 July along with the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) at the tehsil level, and work actively to make the General Strike called by the Central Trade Unions (CTUs) a massive success.
The meeting discussed the grim agrarian scenario in the country, and the anti-farmer, pro-corporate policies of the BJP-led NDA government. It also noted that the Congress-led State Governments in Karnataka, Telangana etc are carrying forward the BJP Government’s policies like Labour Codes, 12 hour work day, land acquistion etc.
The meeting warned against the hurried moves of the Modi regime to sign Free Trade Agreements with UK (already signed), USA, EU, etc., which surrender the interests of farmers, workers and MSME entrepreneurs, violate federal principles and put Parliament in the dark. These FTAs will drastically reduce or eliminate import duties on key agricultural products, threatening the livelihoods of millions of Indian farmers.
The AIKS also decided to fight on issues like the withdrawal of the anti-worker Labour Codes, oppose electricity privatisation and smart meters, and on other burning issues of farmers and agricultural workers like MSP, loan waiver, land rights, MNREGA, local issues, etc.
The AIKS meeting attacked the Central Government for not ensuring the safety of the people and protection of farmland from the wild animal menace. It condemned the BJP Government’s refusal to amend the Wild Life Protection Act. It called upon broad-based united action groups to resist wild animal attacks on human habitats.
A Cuba Solidarity campaign will be held from 26 July to 5 August against US sanctions. A Solidarity Fund will be collected and handed over to Cuba.
In the next few months, an All India Land Rights Convention will be held in Jharkhand after state-level Land Rights conventions; State Conventions of Peasant Women and Peasant Youth will be organised; and the All India Organisational Convention will be held in Andhra Pradesh.
For the construction of the new AIKS Central Office in New Delhi, a sum of One Crore Rupees, collected from the people by all primary units of the Kisan Sabha in Kerala, was handed over by the leadership of the Kerala Karshaka Sangham (AIKS) to the All India AIKS leadership amidst resounding slogans. Tamilnadu, Maharashtra and Telangana have completed their Fund quotas. Other states will fulfil them soon.
The AIKS crossed a new milestone in this meeting. After steadily increasing its reach for the last five years, it touched a membership of 1 crore 53 lakh 15 thousand 100 spread across 27 States including Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The CKC meeting officially began on 29 June with the flag-hoisting and floral tributes to the martyrs’ column.
AIKS Vice President E P Jayarajan, Chairperson of the Reception Committee, made the welcome speech. CKC member Manoj Kumar placed the Condolence Resolution. AIKS President Dr Ashok Dhawale delivered the Presidential address, laying out the key political challenges and the major tasks ahead.
Thereafter, AIKS General Secretary Vijoo Krishnan presented the Draft Report, which analysed the current developments in the agrarian sector and the intensifying economic crisis that continues to grip workers and peasants across the country. The report critically noted the signing of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United Kingdom and the impending agreement with the United States, scheduled to be signed by 9 July.
The CKC meeting deliberated in detail on strategies to intensify struggles in defence of farmers’ rights, resist pro-corporate policies and the communal drive of the BJP-RSS regime, and strengthen unity with the working class to confront the anti-people direction of the current BJP-RSS regime.
AIKS Finance Secretary P Krishna Prasad placed the accounts and important suggestions about finances.
On 30 June evening, an impressive rally and public meeting was held at Kannur. E P Jayarajan presided over the public meeting, which was addressed by Vijoo Krishnan, Dr Ashok Dhawale, Amra Ram, MP, AIKS Kerala President M Vijayakumar, General Secretary Valsan Panoli, and Joint Secretary Prakashan Master.
On June 28, nearly 75 members of the CKC were given a warm reception by the Kerala Karshaka Sangham. The CKC members visited historical sites of peasant resistance against feudal landlords and British imperialism in northern Kerala – Karivellur and Kayyur – which hold a proud legacy in the history of the peasant movement in India.
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Dr Ashok Dhawale
President
Vijoo Krishnan
General Secretary
