Organisers have alleged that there were attempts to thwart a programme to confer the Veer Savarkar Samman scheduled to be held at the KSOU auditorium on Saturday but the Governor’s intervention ensured its smooth conduct.
The Savarkar Foundation, Mysuru, had organised the event which entailed felicitation and conferring the Savarkar Award on author and historian Vikram Sampath, who recently wrote a two-volume biography on V.D. Savarkar.
Mysuru MP Pratap Simha told mediapersons that there was pressure on the organisers since morning to shift the venue from the KSOU though the Savarkar Foundation had paid the rent and booked the auditorium in advance.
