New Delhi, May 30 -- Communist Party of India (CPI) Rajya Sabha MP P Sandosh Kumar has written to Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu, demanding that the upcoming Bihta Airport in Bihar be named after legendary peasant leader Swami Sahajanand Saraswati.

In his letter, Kumar wrote, "I write to demand that the Ministry of Civil Aviation to name the upcoming Bihta Airport in Bihar after Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, one of the tallest leaders of the peasant movement and the first President of the All India Kisan Sabha."

"Swami Sahajanand Saraswati was not only a spiritual scholar but also an uncompromising champion of the oppressed peasantry. His leadership in Bihar during the colonial era fundamentally altered the landscape of agr...