BJP president\u00a0Amit\u00a0Shah\u00a0was among the thousands of devotees who today offered prayers at the\u00a0Somnath temple\u00a0on the 67th anniversary of its reopening, post reconstruction, on May 11, 1951.<\/p>\n
Shah, who prayed on the eve of the crucial Karnakata Assembly polls tomorrow, was accompanied by state BJP president\u00a0Jitubhai Vaghani.<\/p>\n
Vijay Chavda,\u00a0general manager\u00a0of the Shree Somnath Trust told\u00a0PTI\u00a0that several programmes, religious and social, were held to mark the temple’s 68th\u00a0Foundation Day.<\/p>\n
“These programmes included Maha Aarati, Laghu Yagna, medical camps, homage to\u00a0Sardar Patel\u00a0and a cleanliness drive under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Thousands of devotees visited the temple today,” he informed.<\/p>\n
Shah, who is one the trustees of the Shree Somnath Trust, was invited to take part in the 68th\u00a0Foundation Day\u00a0of the existing temple, a BJP release said.<\/p>\n
Shah, along with his family members, performed various religious rituals at the temple and then left for Delhi, the release added.<\/p>\n
The reconstruction of the temple, razed and plundered several times through history, was first mooted by Sardar Patel during his visit to Junagadh on May 13, 1947.<\/p>\n
Rajendra Prasad, the country’s first President, had performed the “linga prathishtha” (idol consecration) on May 11, 1951 after the reconstruction was completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BJP president\u00a0Amit\u00a0Shah\u00a0was among the thousands of devotees who today offered prayers at the\u00a0Somnath temple\u00a0on the 67th anniversary of its reopening, post reconstruction, on May 11, 1951. Shah, who prayed on the eve of the crucial Karnakata Assembly polls tomorrow, was accompanied by state BJP president\u00a0Jitubhai Vaghani. Vijay Chavda,\u00a0general manager\u00a0of the Shree Somnath Trust told\u00a0PTI\u00a0that several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}