Who was the founder of the All India Kisan Sabha party?

The correct answer is Sahajanand Saraswati.

Key Points

The All India Kisan Sabha(AIKS) was a peasant movement formed by Sahajanand Saraswati in 1936 to address the problems of farmers against the zamindari system.

• Sahajanand Saraswati formed the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (BPKS) in Bihar in 1929 to abolish the zamindari system and give a platform to solve the problems of the farmers.
• In 1935, N. G. Ranga and E. M. S. Namboodiripad of the  South Indian Federation of Peasants and Agricultural Labour suggested forming an all-India farmers body.
• It also included people like Karyanand Sharma, Yamuna Karjee, Yadunandan (Jadunandan) Sharma, Rahul Sankrityayan, P. Sundarayya, Ram Manohar Lohia, Jayaprakash Narayan, Acharya Narendra Dev and Bankim Mukherjee.
• On 11 April 1936 in Lucknow, the AIKS was formed with Sahajanand Saraswati as its first President, and NG Ranga as its Secretary.
• It had three objectives:

1. Abolish the Zamindari system
2. Reduce land revenue

3. Institutionalize credit

• As the party was dominated by leftists and Communists, it moved away from the Congress party. In 1942, when Mahatma Gandhi started the Quit India movement, the party ordered all its cadre to stay away, but many defied the order.

• In 1964 it split into two factions, namely: All India Kisan Sabha (Ajoy Bhawan), attached to the Communist Party of India, and All India Kisan Sabha (36, Pt. Ravi Shankar Shukla Lane), attached to the Communist Party of India (Marxist).