Kisan Mazdoor Mandal

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The Kisan Mazdoor Mandal ('Peasant Worker Association', abbreviated KMM) was a political party in Bhopal State, India. The party was formed in 1950 by proponents of a merger with Madhya Bharat, who split away from the Indian National Congress.{{cite book|author=Ashfaq Ali|title=Bhopal, Past and Present : a Brief History of Bhopal from the Hoary Past Up to the Present Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=owMMAQAAIAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Jai Bharat Publishing House|page=447}} The party had a Marxian orientation. KMM was supported by the 10,000-member trade union Mazdoor Sabha.{{cite book|author=S. N. Sadasivan|title=Party and democracy in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ2KAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill|page=44|isbn=9780070965911 }} Khan Shakir Ali Khan was the president of KMM.{{cite book|author=Myron Wiener|title=State Politics in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VErWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA512|date=8 December 2015|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-7914-4|pages=511–512}} In the run-up to the 1952 Bhopal Legislative Assembly election, KMM was the main opposition to the Bhopal Congress.

KMM was recognized by the Election Commission of India as a state party. The party was assigned the election symbol 'cultivator winnowing grain' by the Election Commission.{{cite book|author=Manorama Sinha|title=Electoral Geography of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HjUIAQAAMAAJ|date=1 January 2007|publisher=Adhyayan Publishers & Distributors|isbn=978-81-8435-020-3|page=105}} The party published a socialist manifesto before the polls. The election result was a back-lash for the party.{{cite book|author1=S. P. Singh Sud|author2=Ajit Singh Sud|title=Indian Elections and Legislators|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ATs0AAAAIAAJ|year=1953|publisher=All India Publications|page=107}} KMM became the third-most voted party in the election, contesting 11 out of 30 seats in the state.Election Commission of India. [https://eci.gov.in/files/file/4109-bhopal-1951/ Bhopal, 1951] It obtained 12,255 votes (5.42% of the votes in the state), but didn't win any seats. Khan stood as the KMM candidate in Jahangirabad constituency, finishing in second place with 2,581 votes (43.41% of the votes in the constituency). KMM also fielded one candidate in the 1951-1952 Lok Sabha parliamentary election; Ratankumar in the Sehore constituency. He obtained 8,808 votes (9.28%).Election Commission of India. [https://ceo.gujarat.gov.in/StatisticalInformationAll/LoksabhaElection/LE1951.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1951 TO THE FIRST LOK SABHA]