As of 2000, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh claimed BKS had a quarter million members, organized in 11,000 villages and 301 districts across the country.
[1] The RSS effort to build an agrarian front, parallel to Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh trade union movement, had however failed to attract major mass support.
[7] On 26 February 1981 the BKS held a mass rally at the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly in Hyderabad, the first major farmers mobilization after the Green Revolution.
[9] In July 1985 BKS organized a mass rally at the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, a protest movement that forced the state government to lower electricity prices.
[12] BJP supported the BKS agitation, as means of countering the influence of Sharad Joshi in the state.
[16] With its base among wealthier farmers, BKS supported the privatization of inputs and increased mechanization of agriculture in the 1990s.
[17] BKS held its sixth national conference in Hastinapur in 1999, addressed by RSS sarsanghchalak Rajendra Singh.
[19] Organizers of BKS are generally RSS members or sympathizers, its leader is largely pro-Bharatiya Janata Party.