Who among the following presided over the first session of All India Kisan Sabha in Lucknow in April 1936?
- A.Sahajananda Saraswati
- B.R. G. Ranga
- C.Ram Manohar Lohia
- D.Jayaprakash Narayan
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Sahajananda Saraswati. Swami Sahajanand Saraswati was elected president of the All India Kisan Sabha when it was founded at Lucknow in April 1936.
The Sabha was formed alongside the Lucknow session of the Indian National Congress, presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru, at a time when Congress Socialists and Communists were organising peasants against zamindars and high rents. Sahajanand had already built the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha from 1929, and N. G. Ranga, the peasant leader from Andhra, became the general secretary of the all-India body. In August 1936 the Sabha issued the Kisan Manifesto demanding the abolition of zamindari.
B is wrong because Ranga was the general secretary, not the president, of the first session.
C is wrong because Ram Manohar Lohia was a socialist leader of the Congress Socialist Party, not the Sabha's first president.
D is wrong because Jayaprakash Narayan co-founded the Congress Socialist Party in 1934 and did not preside over this session.
Exam tip: All India Kisan Sabha – Lucknow, April 1936; president Sahajanand Saraswati, general secretary N. G. Ranga.
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