In April noted peasant leaders N. G. Ranga and E. M. S. Namboodiripad, then secretary and joint secretary respectively of South Indian Federation of Peasants and Agricultural Labour, suggested the formation of an all-India farmers body, and soon all these radical developments culminated in the formation of the All India Kisan Sabhaa (AIKS) at the Lucknow session of the Indian National Congress on 11 April 1936 with Swami Shajanand Saraswat elected as its first President