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The four-day ‘Somnath Swabhiman Parv’ began connected Thursday (January 8, 2026) astatine the Somnath Temple adjacent Veraval successful Gujarat’s Gir Somnath district. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is scheduled to statesman a three-day sojourn to Gujarat from January 10, volition connection prayers astatine the temple connected January 11 and pb the ‘Shaurya Yatra’, officials said. It volition beryllium a 1-km-long roadshow featuring 108 horses.
The celebrations besides people 1,000 years since the archetypal onslaught connected the shrine by the Mahmud of Ghazni. Mr. Modi, successful a station connected X connected Thursday, recalled his earlier visits to Somnath and highlighted the resilience of religion contempt repeated attacks connected the shrine. He said the battle successful 1026 and consequent invasions failed to weaken India’s spiritual resoluteness and alternatively strengthened taste unity, starring to the temple’s repeated reconstruction.
Union Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Gujarat Ministers Jitu Vaghani and Pradyuman Vaja were contiguous astatine the inauguration.
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel said the lawsuit has provided radical crossed the state an accidental to observe India’s practice and taste identity.
