Amarjeet Kaur (Born on 2 April 1952) is an Indian politician and National Secretariat member of the Communist party of India.
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] 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.
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.
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