Thread by @sheshapatangi1

HE WAS 83 WHEN HE UNDERWENT #AatmaSamarpan,

According to him, it was not suicide but leaving this earth towards Lord after fulfilling his duties.

From 01-02-1966 till 26-02-1966, he stopped consuming food and water.
#VinayakDamodarSavarkar attained Sadgati on this day.

Readers, The 1st 4 Images Are Important.
He was punished with Double Life Sentence and this happened to be the First of its kind in the British Judiciary.

Few Lesser Known Facts About The Legend #VeerSavarkar..

1) The first political leader to daringly set Absolute Political

Independence as India's goal (1900).
2)The first Indian political leader to daringly perform a bonfire of foreign (English) clothes (1905).
3) The first Indian to organize a revolutionary movement for India's Independence on an international level (1906).

4) The first Indian

law student who was not called to the English Bar despite having passed his examination and observed the necessary formalities, for his activities to seek India's freedom from the British (1909).
5) 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 (Rex Vs Governor of Brixton Prison, ex-parte Savarkar)
6) The first Indian historian whose book on the 1857 War of Independence was proscribed by

British Authorities in India even before its publication. The Governor General had asked the Postmaster General to confiscate copies of the book six months before the book was officially banned (1909).
This Book Was Also Published By Bhagath Singh In Later Years.
7) The first

political prisoner whose daring escape and arrest on French soil became a cause celebre in the International Court of Justice at The Hague. This case was mentioned in many International Treaties at that time (1910).
8) The first graduate whose degree was withdrawn by an Indian

University for striving for India's freedom (1911).
9) 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 who also memorized these lines.
10) The first revolutionary leader who within less than 10 years gave a death-blow to the practice of untouchability in the remote district of Ratnagiri while being interned there.
11) The first Indian leader

who successfully started -
A Ganeshotsava open to all Hindus including ex-untouchables (1930).
12) Interdining ceremonies of all Hindus including ex-untouchables (1931).
13) "Patitpavan Mandir", open to all Hindus including ex-untouchables (22 February 1931).
14) A cafe open to

all Hindus including ex-untouchables (01 May 1933).
15) The FIRST & ONLY Political prisoner in the British History who was sentenced to Transportation for Life twice, a sentence unparalleled in the history of the British Empire.
16) "The Life Of Barrister V D Savarkar" under

pen name Chitragupta, it was found out later that V D Savarkar himself had wrote it.

And for those Gandhi Loving Savarkar Haters..
Answer this !
Gandhi was 14 years elder to Savarkar, but by the time Gandhi came into freedom struggle, Savarkar had already served 5 years of

Rigorous Imprisonment at Andaman.
And the first recorded arrest of Gandhi was in 1922, by then Veer Savarkar had completed his Andaman Journey.
And lastly, Gandhi came to Bharat at the age of 46, in 1915.
Didn't he know the atrocities of British here?
#Vandemataram