On 2 August, 1954,100 Sangh Swayamsevaks stormed the Portuguese enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The attack was led by Vinyak Rao Apte, Pune Sanghchalak. They attacked the main police headquarters at Selvassa and forced the 175 soldiers there to surrender unconditionally. The national tri-colour flag was hoisted and the region handed over to the Central Government on the same day. Like-wise the first to unfurl the national flag over the Panaji Secretariat in Goa in 1955 was a Swayamsevak working as a teacher in Goa. He was put in prison in a Lisbon jail for full 17 years till 1972?well after Goa was liberated in 1961. I cannot help surmising that Government of India was not interested in his earlier release only because he was a Swayamsevak!
