Question

After independence, whose statue was erected in Andaman jail?
A. Khudiram Bose
B. Bhagat Singh
C. V.D Savarkar
D. Rajguru

Answer 1

Hint: After independence, statues of nine freedom fighters of the Andaman Cellular Jail, were erected in Shaheed Park, Port Blair. They were: Baba Bhan Singh, Mahavir Singh, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Mohan Kishore Namdas, Ram Rakha, Indu Bhushan Roy, Mohit Moitra, etc.

Complete step by step answer:
After the Independence of India, the statue of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar has been erected in Port Blair's Shaheed Park along with the eight other martyrs of the Andaman cellular jail. Veer Savarkar was sentenced to imprisonment for fifty years starting from July 4, 1911, but was released from jail in the year 1921 after several mercy petitions to the British government. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883 – 1966), commonly known as Swatantryaveer Savarkar or Veer Savarkar, was an Indian independence activist and politician who was the formulator of the Hindu nationalist philosophy in India. As a response to the Muslim League of Jinnah, Savarkar joined the Hindu Mahasabha and popularized the term ‘Hindutva’ to create a collective Hindu identity as an essence of the Indian Subcontinent. Savarkar started his political activities as a high school student and continued to do the same during his college days at Fergusson College in Pune. He, along with his elder brother Ganesh Savarkar, founded a secret society called Abhinav Bharat.
In 1910, Savarkar was arrested. He, somehow, staged an attempt to escape and seek asylum in France while the ship was docked in the port of Marseilles. The French port officials however handed him back to the British in contravention of international law. On return to India, Savarkar was sentenced to two life terms of imprisonment of fifty years and was moved to the Cellular Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but was released in 1921 post several mercy petitions to the British.
After 1937, he started traveling widely, becoming a forceful orator and writer, advocating Hindu political and social unity. Serving as the president of the Hindu Mahasabha political party, Savarkar endorsed the idea of India as a Hindu Rashtra (sovereign Hindu Nation).
So, the correct answer is Option C.

Note: Savarkar was an Indian independence activist and politician who was the formulator of the Hindu nationalist philosophy in India. After spending a decade in Cellular jail, he was released from jail in the year 1921 after several mercy petitions to the British government. Thereafter he was transferred to an Indian prison by the British for three more years and later underwent a further 13 years of internment in Ratnagiri.