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Amarjeet Kaur

Amarjeet Kaur

General secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress

Not to be confused with Amarjit Kaur.

Amarjeet Kaur (Born on 2 April 1952) is an Indian politician and National Secretariat member of the Communist party of India.[1] She is General Secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress. She is the first woman in Independent India to be at the helm of one of the central trade unions, after Maniben Kara’s election as AITUC General Secretary in 1936.[2]

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Kaur went on to become the second woman general secretary of the All India Students Federation (AISF) for seven years from 1979 and General Secretary of National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) from 1999 to 2002.[3] She was AITUC National Secretary from 1994 to 2017. While a student, she was jailed in Delhi for 10 days in 1972 for participating in a CPI protest over price-rise, and for four days in 1977 for a joint Jamia-JNU-Delhi University students’ protest over Aligarh Muslim University riots.

References

  1. [1]
    "Trade Unions must go beyond labour issues: top woman TU leader" – via The Economic Times.
  2. [2]
    "Amarjeet Kaur: The Trade Unionist Who Broke Gender Barriers". www.labourfile.com.
  3. [3]
    "AISF – Official". www.aisf.org.in.
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