Swami Sahajanand Saraswati was born in Deva Village near Dullahpur, Ghazipur district in eastern Uttar Pradesh Provinces in 1889 to a family of Bhumihar.

All these radical developments on the peasant front culminated in the formation of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) at the Lucknow session of the Indian National Congress in April 1936 with Saraswati elected as its first President[6] and it involved prominent leaders such as N. G. Ranga and E. M. S. Namboodiripad.

The Kisan Manifesto, which was released in August 1936, demanded abolition of the zamindari system and cancellation of rural debts.

[8][9] He also led the successful struggle in the Dalmia Sugar Mill at Bihta, where peasant-worker unity was the most important characteristic.

Subhash Chandra Bose, leader of the Forward Bloc, said: Swami Sahajanand Saraswati is, in the land of ours, a name to conjure with.

Following Swamiji's lead, a large number of front-rank leaders of the peasant movement have been intimately associated with the Forward Block.

[13] But they had shied away from direct involvement with the political processes of the country, though they had become a major source of inspiration for Indian nationalism.