Modi, Sushma should press for memorial of Veer 

Savarkar in Marseilles ( France ) 

New Delhi/ Varanasi. June 29. Foreign Affairs Minister of France, Mr. Laurent Fabius begins his four day official visit to India from June 29 , apparently with an invitation for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Paris at the earliest.

                                                            France, as an 'old Europe' was a traditional friend of India and even in its 'new Europe' avatara is keen to further bilateral relations. Mr Fabius visit offers an opportunity to Modi to press for a long pending project to built a memorial in Marseilles in france , where Veer Savarkar performed an extraordinary fete of courage and bravery by jumping into sea from a British ship and reach shore of France in July, 1910.  Veer savarkar's fete inspired generations of revolutionaries and freedom fighters and was recorded in the history books in golden letters . France initially rejected the request of British imperialist to hand over the detainee and this led to an international dispute. The case was later decided in international court where the verdict was in favour of the barbarians. Savarkar was sent to kaala paani to serve double life imprisonment. France took it as a national humiliation and government there narrowly survived.

                                                                       France, to redeem itself from national shame suffered a century ago, agreed  in 2010, the centenary year of the great leap ,  to build a memorial honoring Veer Savarkar in Marseilles, who was considered an epitome of struggle against colonialism and imperialism. Manmohan - Sonia regime showed no interest and pygmies launched a campaign against any memorial here in India or  there in Marsielles in honour of Savarkar. Now, the electorates of the country have thrown the old regime into dustbin and pygmies are licking their wounds. One only hopes that at least Sonia Gandhi would ultimately recognize that as a president of India's oldest political party, it was expected from her not to disparage but to respect national heroes,even if some of them differ from Congress ideology. Father of nation,  Mahatma Gandhi, who was an anti-thesis of Savarkar, always held the latter in high esteem. Marxist thinker M N Roy virtually worshiped Savarkar and touched his feet when they met  in Bombay.

                                                                   During electioneering Modi spent a few minutes in the room of the Pune's Fergusson college hostel where Savarkar once lived as a student. Modi later said that  he felt vibration of national commitment and sacrifice in the hostel room.

                                                                               A memorial of Veer Savarkar on the beaches of Marseilles will be as significant as the highest statue of Sardar Patel in the middle of Narmada river in Gujarat. And like bringing back ashes of great revolutionary Shyamji Krishna Varma for immerssion in holy Ganga and Sabarmati, Modi will be instrumental in honouring yet another national hero on foreign land.

                                                                                      Modi should make it a point to visit Marseilles when ever he visits France and if by then the memorial was completed he should offer a few flowers to Veer Savarkar on behalf of the nation.