Sri Vijaya Puram, May 16 -- Ashish Shelar, Maharashtra cabinet minister for cultural affairs, visited the Cellular Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, where Vinayak Damodar Savarkar had spent his punishment term during British colonial rule.

"I went to the dark cell in the Cellular Jail in Andaman and Nicobar where the tyrannical British regime had imprisoned freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar to serve his sentence of imprisonment, and bowed down before the statue of Savarkar," Shelar said in a post on X on Friday.

Shelar further remembered the torture Savarkar might have faced at the cellular jail, adding, "Touching the walls on which Savarkar wrote his immortal poems, I was filled with excitement. That jail, the rope worn b...