Who among the following was/were peasant leader(s) from Bihar? I. Swami Vidyananda II. Swami Sahajananda II. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Who among the following was/were peasant leader(s) from Bihar? I. Swami Vidyananda II. Swami Sahajananda II. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Correct Answer only II is true
- Swami Sahajanand Saraswati was a leader of Bihar Peasants. The Bihar Kisan Sabha was formed by Swami Sahajanand Saraswati.
- The All India Kisan Congress/Sabha was founded in Lucknow in April 1936 with Swami Sahjanand Saraswati as its president and N.G. Ranga as general secretary.
- Later it was renamed as All India Kissan Sabha.
- Swami Sahjanand, just before his death, set up a separate All-India United Kisan Sabha whose fundamental demand was ‘the nationalisation of land and waterways and all sources of energy and wealth.
- Swami Sahjanand Saraswati was a sanyasi and a great evolutionary thinker, born in the Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh. Sahjanand Day is observed throughout Bihar on 19th April.
- He came to be addressed as ‘Kisan Pran’ (life of Kisans) by his Kisan Sabha followers.
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