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Union Home Minister Amit Shah connected Tuesday (January 13, 2026) said it is not casual to erase India's Sanatan Dharma, culture, and people's faith, citing the reconstruction of the Somnath temple contempt repeated attempts to destruct it implicit the centuries.
Those who attacked the temple yet disappeared, but the temple inactive stands proudly astatine the aforesaid spot connected the seashore successful Gujarat's Gir Somnath district, helium said.
Mr. Shah was addressing a gathering astatine Mansa municipality successful Gandhinagar territory aft inaugurating and laying the instauration chromatic for assorted projects of ₹267 crore.
On January 11, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Somnath Swabhiman Parv, marking 1,000 years since Mahmud of Ghazni's penetration of the Somnath temple successful the twelvemonth 1026, helium noted.
“Today, 1,000 years aboriginal and aft being destroyed 16 times, the Somnath temple inactive stands gangly with its emblem soaring into the sky,” Mr. Shah said.
“Under the enactment of PM Modi, a magnificent Somnath corridor is besides being built there,” helium informed the audience.
"This is simply a connection to the full satellite that it is not truthful casual to erase India's Sanatan Dharma, Indian culture, and the religion of the Indian people. It is eternal and immortal, similar the prima and the moon. This Somnath temple is simply a awesome of India's faith, belief, and pride," helium added.
“Somnath Swabhiman Parv volition beryllium celebrated for an full year, and galore programmes volition beryllium held crossed the state to disturbance the psyche of India, awaken its consciousness, and instrumentality the roots of Sanatan Dharma to the deepest levels,” Mr. Shah said.
"A 1000 years ago, our magnificent Somnath temple was destroyed by Mahmud Ghazni. After that, it was repeatedly attacked by different invaders, specified arsenic Alauddin Khilji, Ahmed Shah, Mahmud Begada, and Aurangzeb. But the temple was rebuilt each time," helium said successful his address.
"The destroyers believed successful destruction, and the builders believed successful creation. Today, 1,000 years later, those destroyers person disappeared, but the Somnath temple inactive stands proudly successful beforehand of the sea," the elder BJP person pointed out.
After Independence, this temple was rebuilt with the efforts of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, K.M. Munshi, Maharaja of Jamnagar, and the archetypal President, Dr Rajendra Prasad. They each had taken a resoluteness to reconstruct it, Mr. Shah said.
"The volition down that resoluteness was that the onslaught connected Somnath was not conscionable an onslaught connected a temple, it was an onslaught connected our faith, our religion and self-respect. And the reply to that cannot beryllium different attack. The reply lies successful protecting our self-respect," the Union Minister noted.
Among different projects, Mr. Shah inaugurated a sports analyzable astatine Mansa town, his autochthonal place.
For aboriginal requirements and successful enactment with planetary standards, Mr. Shah said immoderate much facilities are required to beryllium incorporated successful the sports complex.
"Therefore, I person decided to cod ₹15 crore done CSR funds to adhd each the indispensable facilities successful this complex. It is the work of the elected representatives of this portion to guarantee that the children from the surrounding areas utilise these facilities," helium said.
Mr. Shah said the Gujarat authorities is making Ahmedabad a 'sports hub city' that volition pull the attraction of the full world.
In 2030, athletes from respective countries volition beryllium coming to Ahmedabad to enactment successful the Commonwealth Games and efforts are besides connected to get hosting rights for the 2036 Olympics, helium added.
