Amit Shah, the Union Home Minister, will travel to Bihar on February 22 to participate in the Swami Sahajanand Saraswati Jayanti Samaroh. Shah will meet with farmers from all around the state at a gathering to be held at Babu Auditorium, according to BJP MP from Bihar, Vivek Thakur, who is also the convenor of the Kisan-Majdoor Samagam.
As BJP MP Vijay Thakur stated in the media that the most important peasant leader in India, Swami Sahjanand Saraswati, was not given the respect he deserved from history or governments. Union Home Minister Amit Shah will deliver an address to the farmers of Bihar and the nation on the occasion of his birth anniversary saying how the Modi government is a supporter of farmers and that wherever injustice will be done, the Center would stand firmly with farmers
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati was born in Deva Village in the Ghazipur district of the Eastern Provinces in 1889 but he worked in Bihta of Patna district. The Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha, which Saraswati founded in 1929 organized resistance from local peasants against the zamindari system and launch a series of farmers' movements in India. Bihta served as the birthplace of the Kisan Sabha movement.
The peasant movement gradually gained momentum and expanded throughout the rest of India. The All-India Kisan Sabha was established in the Lucknow session of the Indian National Congress in April 1936, with Saraswati chosen as its first President, as a result of all these dramatic advances on the peasant front. Between 1937 and 1938, Saraswati directed the Bakasht movement in Bihar.
"Bakasht" is Arabic for self-taught. The Bihar Tenancy Act and the Bakasht Land Tax were passed as a result of the agitation against zamindars' eviction of tenants from Bakasht lands. In the Dalmia Sugar Mill at Bihta, where worker-peasant unity was crucial, he also led a victorious uprising. According to BJP sources in Bihar, the party intends to hold a few additional events during Shah's visit to the region.
It's important to mention that even Subhash Chandra Bose, then elected national president of the Congress, traveled to Bihta to visit Swamiji and ask for his help in the liberation cause.
