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Union Home Minister Amit Shah is apt to sojourn the Andaman and Nicobar Islands for a time to commemorate the 116th day of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s iconic poem ‘Sagara Pran Talamala’, officials said connected Tuesday (December 9, 2025).
A elder authoritative said they person received preliminary accusation astir Mr. Shah’s accomplishment either connected December 11 oregon 12 astatine the Veer Savarkar International Airport, but the last itinerary is awaited.
Police sources said that according to archetypal information, Mr. Shah volition be an lawsuit connected December 12 successful Beodnabad successful South Andaman, wherever a statue of Savarkar volition beryllium unveiled. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) main Mohan Bhagwat is besides scheduled to be the ceremony.
In the evening, the Home Minister is apt to code a nationalist gathering astatine the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Institute of Technology (DBRAIT) successful Sri Vijaya Puram, wherever a opus dedicated to Savarkar volition beryllium formally released.
"He is besides expected to inaugurate a recently built forensic subject laboratory successful Sri Vijaya Puram. All accusation we person received truthful acold from the MHA is preliminary, and hopefully successful a time oregon 2 we volition person his last itinerary," a elder constabulary serviceman said.
Savarkar was imprisoned successful the Cellular Jail (Kala Pani) successful Port Blair (now known arsenic Sri Vijaya Puram) by the British successful 1911. He was kept successful solitary confinement and subjected to hard labour during his incarceration successful the penal colony.
This volition beryllium Mr. Shah’s 2nd sojourn to the archipelago. He past visited successful January 2023 to commemorate the 126th commencement day of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. On that trip, helium was the main impermanent astatine the culmination of the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Iconic Events Week’, held from January 17 to 23, 2023, successful Sri Vijaya Puram.
