Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan paid homage to Swatantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar on his anniversary. Chief Minister Chouhan paid floral tributes by garlanding his picture in the auditorium of his residence. To break the shackles of subjugation of Maa Bharti, Veer Savarkar, the son of motherland who chose the darkness and torture of cellular jail believed that the meaning of life is to live and die for the motherland.
Veer Savarkar was a great revolutionary, freedom fighter, historian, nationalist leader and thinker of India. He is often addressed as Swatantryaveer, Veer Savarkar. Veer Savarkar was born on 28 May 1883 in Bhagur village near Nashik in Maharashtra. He founded a revolutionary organisation called Abhinav Bharat Society. Veer Savarkar was the national president of All India Hindu Mahasabha. Veer Savarkar was sent to Cellular Jail after being sentenced to Kalapani in the Nashik case. Veer Savarkar suffered atrocities in jail for a long period of ten years.