The year-long celebration of 90 years of the glorious history of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) started on April 11, 2026 at New Delhi by hoisting the Kisan Sabha Flag. AIKS President Dr Ashok Dhawale unfurled the flag at the AIKS Central Office in an enthusiastic function attended by leaders and activists of different class and mass organisations and the democratic movement. Thousands of village units of the Kisan Sabha across the country commemorated the day by hoisting the AIKS flag.

Ashok Dhawale in his presidential speech, recalled the happy coincidence that April 11 this year was also the birth bicentenary day of Mahatma Jotirao Phule, a revolutionary social reformer, a great opponent of caste and gender oppression, and one of the earliest champions of the peasantry. While briefly recounting the 90-year-old history of the AIKS in three parts, viz 1936-47, 1947-90, and 1991-2026, he called upon all Kisan Sabha units to plan political and organisational activities to convey the message of this historic journey of struggles against imperialism, feudalism and capitalism. He stressed the need to fight the danger of corporate-communal attacks on the people under the current BJP-RSS-led Modi regime and called for the greatest possible unity of democratic, secular and progressive people across the country. Finally, he called for a great intensification of struggles, ideological campaigns, and organisational expansion over the next one decade to make the AIKS Centenary truly historic.

Prakash Karat, veteran leader of the CPI(M), said that the radical peasant movement led by the AIKS ever since its inception and the mass struggles unleashed by it against feudal-colonial exploitation contributed to building and expanding the Communist movement in India and strengthening the anti-imperialist struggle. He accused the alliance of the ruling classes - the big capitalist class and the semi-feudal landlords - that took over state power after independence of betraying the peasantry and failing to implement radical land reforms. He further stressed the need to build peasant unity and worker-peasant unity to fight the corporate attacks on the peasantry and resist the danger of imperialist penetration into agriculture and the domestic market under the BJP-RSS-led Modi Government. 

Vijoo Krishnan, General Secretary of the AIKS, while recalling some important AIKS-led struggles in its history, stressed the need to increase the independent strength of the Kisan Sabha with the slogan: "Kisan Sabha in Every Village and Every Kisan in Kisan Sabha". AIKS is the largest and oldest kisan organisation with 1.53 crore members across 27 states, 434 districts, and 75,799 village units throughout India. He stressed the slogan of alternative policies based on producer cooperatives against the corporate takeover of agriculture and unleashing massive united struggles under the banner of SKM in coordination with the Central Trade Unions against the corporate attacks on the rights of peasants and workers. 

AIKS Finance Secretary P Krishnaprasad welcomed the gathering, and AIKS CKC member Pushpendra Tyagi placed the vote of thanks. Swadesh Devroye (CITU), B Venkat (AIAWU), Punyavathi (AIDWA), Sanjeev (DYFI), Subhash Jakhar (SFI), Prof Archana Prasad, D S Dagar (AISKS) and Indrajit Singh (AIKS) addressed the gathering.

B V Raghavalu, R Arun Kumar, Vikram Singh, Muralidharan, Pushpendra Grewal, Anurag Saxena, Rajeev Kunwar, Asha Sharma, Maimoona Mollah, Sehba Farooqui, Vimal Paliwal, Sahiram, and many others attended the function. Artistes of the Bangla Manch and the Jana Natya Manch presented revolutionary songs. An exhibition on the legendary struggles of the AIKS and the Kisan movement was organised as part of the observance. Progressive literature was sold. The entire AIKS office had been elegantly decorated with red flags to celebrate its 91st birthday.