Bharatiya Kisan Sangh

The Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) is an organisation that is a subsidiary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindutva paramilitary organisation. The BKS was founded by Dattopant Thengadi in 1978. As of 2000, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh claimed that the BKS had a quarter of a million members, organised in 11,000 villages and 301 districts across the country. The organisation is dominated by members of the landed gentry.