People's Democracy

New Leadership of AIAWU

THE fifth conference of All India Agricultural Workers Union that was held at Thrissur from 4-6 April 2003 elected an 89-member general council with three seats vacant and a central working committee of 30 member (with 1 place vacant). 6 from Kerala (5 men, 1 women), 6 from the Centre, 4 from Andhra Pradesh (3 men, 1 woman), two each from Bihar, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Tripura and UP. One each from Haryana, Karnataka. Maharashtra, Orissa and Rajasthan.

The office bearers are as follows. P Ramayya (President); A Kanaran, Chand Singh Chopra (Vice Presidents); A Vijayaraghavan (General Secretary); Suneet Chopra, Hannan Mollah, Sarangdhar Paswan (Joint Secretaries); Harkishen Singh Surjeet and S Ramachandran Pillai are Secretariat members.

The broad breakup of the delegates who attended the conference is as follows. A total of 561 delegates attended, 318 of whom were between the age of 41 and 60, 230 of them from agricultural labour families, 107 more from working class families and 157 from poor peasant families, reflecting the sound basis of the organisation on the ground.