Summary:
Mumbai, Dec 4 (PTI) BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday objected to the name of freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar being `missing" at the ongoing annual Marathi literary meet at Nashik in north Maharashtra.
The late Hindutva ideologue was born at Bhagur near Nashik in 1883.
There was a demand from some quarters that a pandal at the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan, being held at Bhujbal Knowledge City, be named for Savarkar.
Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal is involved in the organization of this year"s meet.
Speaking to reporters here, Fadnavis said Savarkar had presided over both the Marathi literary meet and Marathi theatre conference, and he had also been president of the Marathi Patrakar Sangh, a journalists" union.
"He would be probably the only person to have achieved this feat and still his name is missing from the entire event," the BJP leader said.