A Bharat Ratna for Veer Savarkar would be official recognition of his contributions to the story of Independent India at the highest level, despite the vilification heaped by Congress
In a letter dated May 30, 1980, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had written a letter to Pandit Bakhle, then secretary of Swatantrayaveer Savarkar Rashtriya Smarak, hailing Savarkar's contribution to the freedom struggle.
The Prime Minister declared that we could soon discover as to exactly why and how the perpetrators of the 1993 Mumbai blasts escaped punishment all this while.
Father of Omraje Nimbalkar, Pawanraje Nimbalkar, who was a Congress leader was shot dead in his car near Kalamboli on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on June 3, 2006