In order to celebrate Ganesh festival in Nasik, ‘Mitra Mela’ organization was formed an 1899 AD. From this Mitra Mela, a secret revolutionary organization named ‘Abhinav Bharat’ was born in 1904 AD under the leadership of Veer Savarkar. Its objective was to free India from British rule through Ganpati festival and Shivaji festival started by Tilak.
This organization conveyed revolutionary thoughts to the people. It spread its thoughs through assemblies and magazines. This organization started to prepare the youth to fight against the British by providing them training of operating stickes, swords, climbing the hills, horse riding, running etc. Abhinav Bharat established relations with many secret revolutionary organizations of Bengal and India.
