Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R). **Assertion (A):** During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Swami Sahajanand Saraswati increasingly aligned the Kisan Sabha with the Congress Socialist Party (CSP) and the Communists. **Reason (R):** He realized that the mainstream right-wing Congress leadership was deeply committed to safeguarding the interests of the landed aristocracy (Zamindars) at the expense of the peasantry. Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

Options:

  • A: (A) is true but (R) is false.
  • B: Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
  • C: Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
  • D: (A) is false but (R) is true.

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