Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the Shaurya Yatra, offered prayers, and addressed a public gathering at Somnath on the final day of the Swabhiman Parv.
- The procession featured a 108-horse mounted contingent from the Gujarat Police, prepared over months, with saints, artists and students lining the route.
- Modi warned that groups who once opposed the post-Independence reconstruction remain active, asserting that invaders are now consigned to history while Somnath endures.
- As chairman of the Shree Somnath Trust, he reviewed infrastructure upgrades and ways to improve the pilgrimage experience during a meeting in the temple town.
- The four-day observance drew large crowds for 72 hours of Om chanting and a major drone show, and included tributes to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Veer Hamirji Gohil, coinciding with 75 years since the 1951 reopening.