About Our AISA

All India Students' Association (AISA) is a left-wing student organisation of India. It is the student wing of the Communist Party of India (MarxistbLeninist) Liberation. AISA was founded in Allahabad on 9 August 1990 with the merger of several left wing student organisations operating in different states.

[1] Sucheta De is the national president of AISA and Sandeep Saurav is its National General Secretary.

[2]Formed in the early 1990s, AISA represents a radical assertion of students against the commercialization of education, communalism and for social justice and equality. AISA stands as a social force dedicated to upholding and furthering the values of gender equality and secularism. The positive interventions of the AISA - movement resulted into a rapidly growing popularity of the organization from the 1990s. When BJP was riding the communal wave in post Babri demotion time, AISA challenged ABVP in its so called forts across North India. AISA rose as a popular student organization against communal forces in several campuses, wining student union elections in Kumaon University, Allahabad University, BHU and JNU.

[3]AISA has organisational presence in Delhi, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. AISA achieved sustained electoral success in Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union elections till 2017.