Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut On 12 February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Marseille, where he paid tribute to Freedom Fighter vd Savarkar, who made a daring escape attempt in the French city. Raut during speaking it described it as 'a matter of pride'.
While he spoke with reporters, Shiv Sena (UBT) said MP: “… there is nothing wrong with the prime minister who visits the place where Veer Savarkar escaped. It is a matter of pride for us.”
Furthermore, he said: “… It is not good to raise questions against Veer Savarkar … Veer Savarkar escaped from a boat and swam to the coast, and then a case was submitted to him. Veer Savarkar was fearless. We may have his contradictions with his ideology, but he was a great freedom fighter and a revolutionary. “
Earlier in the day, when Premier Modi arrived in Marseille in South France, he paid tribute to the memory of freedom fighter vd Savarkar, who tried a “courageous escape” in the port city.
PM wrote to X, “Landed in Marseille. In the search from India for freedom, this city has a special meaning. It was here that the Grote Veer Savarkar tried a courageous escape,” Modi said in a post on X on Tuesday evening Tuesday evening on Tuesday evening to arrive Tuesday evening (local time).
What is the meaning of Marseille and Veer Savarkar?
The city of Marseille has a special place in the freedom struggle of India. It was here that Veer Savarkar, one of the freedom fighters of India, made a brave attempt to escape from British detention.
According to PTI The report is known that he slipped out of the ship's gate of the ship and managed to swim ashore before he was captured by the French authorities and then returned to the detention of the British ship authorities. The news agency stated that it had activated a large diplomatic row when Savarkar was sentenced to life imprisonment in the cellular prison on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
PM Modi's schedule for today
The prime minister will inaugur a new consulate general of India with French President Emmanuel Macron. In addition, the two leaders have planned a series of assignments, including an expected visit to the Mazargues War Cemetery in honor of the sacrifice of Indian soldiers who died in the world wars.
.over, a tour of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project that is an international cooperation between nuclear merger is also on agenda. From France, the prime minister will then travel to the US during the second stage of his tour of two countries.
(With entrances from PTI, ANI)
