Correct Answer - Option 1 : just before his death
The correct answer is option 1, i.e. just before his death.
- The All India Kisan Congress/Sabha was founded in Lucknow in April 1936 with Swami Sahjanand Saraswati as the president and N.G. Ranga as the general secretary.
- Later it was renamed as All India Kissan Sabha.
- After independence, the Socialists set up splittist organisations like the Hind Kisan Panchayat and many Kisan Sabha activists also joined the Forward Bloc.
- At this point, 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.
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Note: The All India Forward Bloc is a left-wing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose.
About Swami Sahjanand Saraswati (1889-1950)
- He was sanyasi as well as revolutionary, born in the district of Ghazipur of Uttar Pradesh.
- Sahjanand Day was observed throughout Bihar on 19th April.
- He came to be addressed as ‘Kisan Pran’ (life of Kisans) by his Kisan Sabha followers.
