PM elected chairman of Somnath temple belief

PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi was elected new chairman of the Shree Somnath Trust (SKT), the non secular physique which manages and maintains the well-known Somnath temple close to Veraval in Gujarat, at a digital assembly of the board of trustees on Monday.
The put up of chairman of the belief had fallen vacant following the demise of Keshubhai Patel, former chief minister of Gujarat, in October 2020.
Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, veteran BJP chief LK Advani, chairman of Kolkata-based building main Ambuja Neotia Goup, Harshvardhan Neotia, retired chief secretary of Gujarat Pravin Laheri and retired professor of Sanskrit in Veraval, Jeevan Parmar, are the members of the board of trustees of the SKT.
A digital assembly of the trustees was initially scheduled for January 11 however was postponed because of PM’s interplay with chief ministers of states of the nation forward of the launch of the mass Covid-19 vaccination drive. It was rescheduled for January 12 however was additional postponed to January 18.
While Laheri and Prof Parmar joined from Gujarat, the remainder joined from their respective locations, Laheri, secretary of SKT, advised The Indian Express. “Shah proposed name of Mr Modi for the post of chairman and everyone seconded it and elected him new chairman uncontested,” Laheri added.
The Central authorities and the Gujarat authorities have powers to appoint 4 trustees every on the board of trustees of SKT. While Shah had crammed the emptiness created by the demise of former Congress MP Prasannvadan Mehta in 2014, the board has not had any substitute for Rajen Kilachand, the chairman of Dubai-based Kilachand Group in 2016. Thus, the board was functioning with seven trustees and now have solely six.

“At the meeting on Monday, the board deferred decision to induct new trustees,” Laheri mentioned.
The SKT board conducts election to the put up of its chairman yearly. Patel was serving because the chairman of the SKT since 2004. He had change into a trustee of the board in yr 1999.
Advani too has been intently related to Somnath temple in current many years. It was from Somnath that he had launched into his Rath Yatra in 1990.