PM Narendra Modi pays tributes to Veer Savarkar on his 138th Birth Anniversary.

GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 28th May. PM Narendra Modi paid rich tribute to the Indian freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar on his 138th birth anniversary being observed around the country on Friday. PM Modi in his tweet said,”, “Greetings to Veer Savarkar, a great fighter of the freedom struggle and an ardent patriot, on his birth anniversary”.
The Shiv Sena spokesperson Sanjay Rawat also paid rich tribute to the freedom fighter and called him a Bharat Ratna, the gem of India. BJP also paid rich tribute to the freedom fighter in its tweet.
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was born on May 28, 1883, in Nasik, in a Chitpavan Brahmin family in Maharashtra, Savarkar was a revolutionary from the very beginning. Savarkar was sentenced to Kala Paani and sent to Andaman and Nicobar Island jail by the British in 1911 for the murder of the Nasik collector.
India’s war of independence took place in 1857. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is credited with registering this movement as India’s first freedom struggle. He wrote a book in 1909. It was called ‘The Indian War of Independence-1857’. It was this book that declared the 1857 war as India’s first war of independence. This was Savarkar’s first major task that was accepted in independent India.