29 May : A meeting of IT Cell, Bharatiya Janata Party Chandigarh held under the chairmanship of Sh.Ravinder Pathania, Co-Convener to commemorate the birth anniversary of great freedom fighter Swatantrya Veer Savarkar.
BJP General Secretary Sh. Satinder Singh and Media Incharge Shakti Prakash Devshali were also present on the occasion. Other prominent IT cell members who attended the meeting include Sh. Munish Kumar, Abhishek Sharma, Karun, Balwinder, Sohan, Abhinav Sharma, Balbir Singh etc.
While addressing the meeting, Sh. Satinder Singh & Shakti Prakash Devshali said that Swatantryaveer Savarkar was a fearless freedom fighter, social reformer, writer, dramatist, poet, historian, political leader and philosopher. He remains largely unknown to the masses because of the vicious propaganda against him and misunderstanding around him that has been created over several decades.
He was a dynamic personality and fought for the country’s freedom. His life itself is a book that inspires each and every Indian. There are several facts about him that are not known to the general public. He was the first political leader to daringly set Absolute Political Independence as India’s goal in 1900. He was the first Indian political leader to daringly perform a bonfire of foreign (English) clothes in 1905. He was also first Indian to organize a revolutionary movement for India’s Independence on an international level in 1906. In history he was the first and only graduate whose degree was withdrawn by an Indian University in 1911 for striving for India’s freedom. He was the first poet in the world who, deprived of pen and paper, composed his poems and then wrote them on the prison walls with thorns and nails, memorized ten thousand lines of his poetry for years and later transmitted them to India through his fellow-prisoners. He was the only Indian leader whose arrest in London caused legal difficulties for British Courts and whose case is still referred to in the interpretations of the Fugitive Offenders Act and the Habeas Corpus.