Sri Vijaya Puram, Dec 12 (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat are scheduled to unveil a statue of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Friday, officials said.

Shah arrived here around 12.30 am, while Bhagwat reached the archipelago on Thursday evening, they said.

Bhagwat and Shah are scheduled to unveil the statue of Savarkar at Beodnabad in South Andaman around 2.30 pm, the officials said.

They will also be present at an event to release a song on Savarkar at BR Ambedkar Institute of Technology here around 4 pm.

Savarkar was jailed in the Cellular Jail in Port Blair (now known as Sri Vijaya Puram) by the British in 1911.

The Union home minister is likely to leave the islands on Friday evening.

Bhagwat is scheduled to address a pub

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