TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said along with spiritual dimension, centres of faith play a major role in spreading social consciousness. On the occasion of Ram Navami, Modi virtually addressed the 14th Foundation Day celebration at Umiya Mata temple at Gathila, Junagadh, in Gujarat.
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Parshottam Rupala were among those present on the occasion. The Prime Minister greeted the people on the auspicious occasion of the foundation day of the temple and Ram Navami.
He also expressed gratitude for getting an opportunity of dedicating the temple in 2008 and paying his obeisance to Maa Umiya since many years. Modi expressed happiness that apart from being an important place of spiritual and divine importance, Umiya Mata temple at Gathila has become a place of social consciousness and tourism.
The Prime Minister said as a devotee of Maa Umiya, it is not possible for people to cause any damage to mother earth. “As we do not feed unnecessary medicines to our mother, we should not use unnecessary chemicals on our land too,” he added.
