A statue of politician-activist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is to be unveiled at Andaman and Nicobar Island’s Beodnabad on Friday, said officials.
Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, and RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat, will participate in the statue’s unveiling ceremony, following which they will attend an event to release a song on Savarkar at BR Ambedkar Institute of Technology.
While Shah arrived on the island by around 12.30 am, Bhagwat had reached the archipelago on Thursday evening, they added.
The statue of Savarkar is to be unveiled at Beodnabad in South Andaman.
Savarkar was imprisoned in the Cellular Jail in Port Blair (now known as Sri Vijaya Puram) by the British in 1911.
In a post on X on Thursday evening, Shah had said: “Savarkar ji was among those rare revolutionaries who advanced the freedom struggle both physically and ideologically.
“I am eager to participate in the ceremony to be held tomorrow at Shri Vijaya Puram (Andaman & Nicobar) on the completion of 115 years of the immortal song ‘Sagara Pran Talamala’, written by him in remembrance of the motherland, and to pay tribute to his memory. The Sarsanghchalak of @RSSorg, the respected Shri Mohan Bhagwat ji, will grace the ceremony as the chief guest.”
Meanwhile, Bhagwat is also likely to visit the Chinmaya Mission on the island for an interactive session with monks before the unveiling of Savarkar’s statue.
Security has been beefed up in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in view of the high-profile visits, police said.
The Union home minister is likely to leave the islands on Friday evening, although Bhagwat is scheduled to address another public gathering on Saturday under the banner of ‘Virat Hindu Sammelan’ at Netaji Stadium in Sri Vijaya Puram, the officials said.
On Sunday, the RSS chief will attend a gathering at DBRAIT in the morning, and depart from the archipelago at 1.50 pm, they added.
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