Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) (English: Indian Farmers' Union) is a farmer's representative organisation in India. It was founded by Chaudhary Charan Singh from the Punjab Khetibari Union (Punjab Farming Union) which became its Punjab branch. [1] The union is affiliated to the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee and Via Campesina. [2]

Dec 20, 2020 · While several farmers’ unions from different parts of the country have joined the agitation, it is mainly spearheaded by organisations from Punjab and Haryana. The Bharatiya Kisan Union...

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Feb 27, 2024 · The confrontation, analysts say, has sewn apprehension in the highest echelons of Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is wary of antagonizing the farmers – one of the country’s ...

Mar 20, 2025 · Farmers, representing the All India Kisan Sabha and Bharatiya Kisan Union, marched to Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini’s residence in Karnal on Thursday as part of their protest.

Aug 21, 2022 · In the thick of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, farmers sustained their more than year-long protests and finally forced the neoliberal, hard-right Hindu nationalist government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to back down.

Dec 19, 2022 · Examines the emergence and evolution of farmers' movements in contemporary India, focusing on the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) and Shetkari Sanghatana (SS). It discusses the economic and social factors leading to these movements, their demands, strategies, and impact on agricultural policy and farmers' rights.

Mar 23, 2025 · Farmers under the non-political Samyukta Kisan Morcha and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) held a sit-in protest for 400 days from February 13, 2024 to March 20, 2025 at Shambu border between Punjab and Haryana. But the …

Jan 18, 2022 · Jat farmers, especially in western UP, are a politically powerful group, and are very important to determining election outcomes in a large number of seats in the region. A look at the BKU and its political history.

5 days ago · India’s central government led by the ultra-right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has unleashed a massive crackdown in the past to prevent the farmers from carrying out their protests. The BJP-led central government has filed numerous cases against the leaders of the 2020-21 protests at Delhi borders.