On 8th July 1910, when Veer Savarkar was being transported to India for trial aboard the British ship SS Morea, leapt through the porthole of the ship at Marseille port. Savarkar managed to escape even though a strict vigil was placed on him by the police and there were no portholes in the room he was kept in.
Raut's delayed response on Veer Savarkar come after a huge controversy that had erupted across the country following Rahul Gandhi's cheap dig on Savarkar in December 2019.
Congress made reference to the book 'Freedom at Midnight' for maligning Veer Savarkar, but notably, the book had omitted the particular content in its second edition