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Swami Sahajananda Saraswati formed the All India United Kisan Sabha with the demand for the 'nationalization of land and waterways'


1. Just before his death
2. At a very Young age
3. In the 1930s
4. In the 1920s

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Correct Answer - Option 3 : In the 1930s

The correct answer is In the 1930s.

  • A peasants organization All India United Kisan Sabha (AIUKS) was founded around the late 1930s by Swami Sahajanand Saraswati.
  • Sahajanand Saraswati formed a smaller Kisan Sabha in the Patna district in association with a formal organizational structure.
  • Later in 1929, he established the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (BPKS).
  • With this Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha, he emerged as the foremost Kisan leader in India.
  • AIUKS demanded comprehensive agrarian reform, redistribution of lands to poor peasants, and the nationalization of waterways, lands, and 'all sources of energy and wealth'.

  • The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) was formed with some Congress Socialists at the Lucknow session of the Indian National Congress on 11 April 1936.
  • Sahajanand was elected as its first President. With the formation of the All India Kisan Sabha, the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha became one of its provincial units.
  • The Sabha demanded the abolition of the zamindari system and the cancellation of rural debts. Thereafter, in October 1937, it adopted the red flag as its banner.
  • Sahajanand organized the Anti-Compromise Conference with Subhas Chandra Bose against the British and Congress.
  • He even worked with the Communist Party of India during World War II. 
  • Bihar Kishan Sabha was formed in 1933.
  • The Bihar Kishan Sabha was mainly responsible for the rural base of congress in Bihar.
1922
  • For the first time, Kishan Sabha was organized by Mohammad Zubair and Sri Krishna Singh in Munger.
1929
  •  Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (BPKS) was formed by Swami Shahjanand Saraswati at Sonepur.
1936
  • All India Kisan Sabha was formed at Lucknow.
  • NG Ranga was secretary of All India Kisan Sabha
  • Swami Shahjanand Saraswati was appointed as its President.
  • Under Rajendra Prasad, a committee was set up to study the conditions of farmers.

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