Akhil Bhartiya Khatik Samaj

Akhil Bhartiya Khatik Samaj (All India Khatik Samaj) was founded on 26 July 1982 under the leadership of Rajnath Sonkar Shastri, Gangaram Nirwan, Narayan Prasad Chaudhary, Mamchand Rewaria and other Khatik social activists to promote the interests of Khatik people of the Indian society.

History
The All India Khatik Samaj was founded in Delhi, India on 26 July 1982, as an offshoot of the Khatik Samaj. The Khatik Samaj has been functioning from 1982 for social causes. It is registered under society registration act wide registration no. N-441.

The Khatik hostel was opened, the Khatik Samaj was created and the Khatik Gazette was started.

The AIKS or ABKS was initially founded as Akhil Bhartiya Khatik Samaj. Many freedom fighters, social activist from Khatik community took interest to founding Akhil Bhartiya Khatik Samaj:

Founders

 * 1) Raghunath Jadhav, (Nasik, Maharashtra),
 * 2) Rajnath Sonkar Shastri, (Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh),
 * 3) Mamchand Rewaria, (Delhi),
 * 4) Jyoti Prasad Sonkar, (Delhi),
 * 5) Gangaram Nirwan, (Delhi),
 * 6) RK Kalyankar, (Simoga, Karnataka),
 * 7) Narayan Prasad Chaudhary, (Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh),
 * 8) Ramsharan Verma, (Dehradun, Uttrakhand),
 * 9) S. Dashrath, (Andhra Pradesh),
 * 10) (Smt. Nagratnam Ramkishan, (Bengaluru, Karnataka),
 * 11) Dungaram Rajaura, (Jaipur, Rajasthan),
 * 12) Prof Mahashankar Prasad Sagar, (Darbhanga, Bihar),
 * 13) Hariram Chauhan, (Haryana).

National youth president Rajesh Sonkar and state president of Rajasthan Dr. OP Mahendra expanded its scope from rural area to All India in character.

Sister organisations
Later in 1997, another version of the organization was formed under leadership of Munshi Rampal with CP Mahendra with the same wide registration no. S-31375/1997.

There are some other Khatik organizations working with ABKS and doing notable work for Khatik society.


 * 1) All India Khatik Federation - founded by Netram Thagela (Administrative, General Secretary, Ministry of Defence (India)
 * 2) Rashtravadi Khatik Vikas Samiti - founded by SN Chak Retired as DGP (prosecution) Uttar Pradesh Police
 * 3) Khatik Mahasangh - founded by Pratap Singh

Political involvement
Khatik's population in India is around 7 crores and the number of people is enough to bring attention of political parties towards Khatik politicians, therefore ABKS has helped many Khatik leaders winning various parliamentary elections including Virendra Kumar Khatik, Manoj Rajoria, Bhola Singh, Vinod Sonkar, Dr. Udit Raj and Neelam Sonkar.

Akhil Bhartiya Khatik Samaj has launched "Swabhiman Yatra" in Haryana on 30th June 2019 in the leadership of State President Vijendra Badgurjar to create social, political awareness in the Khatik community.