‘History of Somnath one of victory & reconstruction’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the attacks on the Somnath Temple were not merely about economic loot, as the attackers would have stopped after the first major plunder if that had been the case.

- STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE

Addressing a gathering on the final day of the four-day Somnath Swabhiman Parv, PM Modi said: “If the attacks on Somnath were only for economic loot, they would have stopped after the first major plunder a thousand years ago. But that did not happen.” He said that after Independence, efforts were made to “whitewash” foreign attacks and present them as routine acts of plunder. “The temple was attacked again and again, its idols were broken, its form was altered repeatedly, and yet we were taught that it was only about loot,” he said.