Bharatiya Kisan Sangh
| Abbreviation | BKS |
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| Formation | 4 March 1979 |
| Legal status | Active |
| Headquarters | New Delhi, India |
Region served | India |
Parent organization | Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh |
| Website | bharatiyakisansangh |
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The Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) (English: Indian Farmers' Union) 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.