Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while declaring Modhera village in Gujarat as India’s first 24x7 solar-powered village, talked about how invaders in the past tried their best to raze the historic Sun Temple in Modhera and the atrocities they committed on the people of the region.
“What they (invaders) had not done to raze the temple? What atrocities were not inflicted by the invaders on the people of Modhera,” he said, adding “the same Modhera and this temple today has shown the way by becoming the first solar-powered village in the country.”
The Sun temple in Modhera, 70 km from Ahmedabad, is a magnificent relic of stone masonry built during the Solanki Empire in Gujarat. The temple was attacked and invaded twice, first by Mehmood Ghazni during his raid of Gujarat and then by Allauddin Khilji.
