Overview
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat unveiled a statue of V.D. Savarkar at Beodnabad in South Andaman on December 12.
- At BR Ambedkar Institute of Technology in Sri Vijaya Puram, they attended a programme where a new song on Savarkar was released.
- Shah praised Savarkar as a writer-fighter who laid the foundation of “Cultural Nationalism” and urged families to pass his ideology to children.
- Bhagwat hailed Savarkar as the brightest guiding star of the freedom era and lauded his articulation of India as a “Hindu Rashtra.”
- Officials reported heightened security for the visit, with Bhagwat on a multi-day tour set to address public gatherings through the weekend as reports differed on whether the poem’s anniversary marked was the 115th or 116th.