GG News Bureau
Patna, 22nd Jan. Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to visit Patna on February 22 to attend a farmers’ conclave organized by the Bihar BJP on the birth anniversary of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, an ascetic and peasant leader.
State BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal and Rajya Sabha MP Vivek Thakur said at a joint press conference that Shah will attend the farmers’ convention next month.
Jaiswal also denied speculation that the celebration of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati’s birth anniversary was a strategy to strengthen the party’s upper-caste support base.
“Swami Sahajanand Saraswati’s contributions have been acknowledged by historians around the world. Please do not view him through a narrow prism,” said Jaiswal.
The BJP leaders also labeled Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as “anti-farmer,” referring to the January 11 violence in Buxar, where a peasant agitation over compensation for acquired land for a thermal power project devolved into violence.
They claimed that when the CM recently visited Buxar as part of his ‘Samadhan Yatra,’ he did not even bother to meet with the affected farmers.
“It is because of the lacklustre attitude of the state government that Saraswati is a less-known personality in Bihar. It must hand over the defunct Bihta Bazar Samiti and its land to the central government so that it can be developed into an advanced farmers’ facilitation centre to be named after Sahajanand Saraswati,” said Thakur.
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