Rajkot: Does Rajkot-based Khodaldham creator and politically ambitious Naresh Patel dislike another Patidar community organisation, Sardardham? Is Naresh Patel jealous and uncomfortable with the rising response to Sardardham? Is there a Leuva Patel vs. Kadva Patel angle to it? An incident of attack on Jayanti Sardhara has raised such questions. Jayantibhai Sardhara, a former corporator of the Rajkot Municipal Corporation and a Patidar community leader, was allegedly attacked by Junagadh polic...Read More

Rajkot:  The Rajkot District Tourism Committee met at the Rajkot Collectorate under the leadership of District Collector Prabhav Joshi.The committee approved a proposal to request Rs.50 lakh from the Gujarat government for the 150-year-old Swaminarayan Mandir in Nani Bazar, Gondal, and Rs.40 lakh for a solar project in Khodaldham, Kagvad. The proposal for the Swaminarayan Mandir includes Rs.10 lakh for a solar rooftop and Rs.40 lakh for Bhojanshala and Satsang hall. The committee will submit...Read More

Gandhinagar: An in-principle sanction of Rs 37.80 crore has been given by the State Government to the Gujarat Pavitra Yatradham Development Board (GPYVB) for the development of village level small shrines of different institutions/trusts. GPYVB Secretary R. R. Raval giving this information, said that Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel had recently held a meeting with GPYVB officials in Gandhinagar in which the proposals regarding the development of village-level temples were approved. Out of...Read More

Rajkot: Saurashtra based businessman Naresh Patel, Chairman of Khodaldham Trust, has after months of confusion and dilemma today made announcement to postpone his decision to enter the politics. Patel said the survey conducted by Trust had divided opinion on whether he should join politics or not. He said while the youths and the women opined he should join politics, the elders were of opinion that he should not join politics. Patel said, the elders believed that if he joins one particular polit...Read More

Rajkot: Naresh Patel, the founder and chairman of Khodaldham Trust should not enter politics. This has been opined in a survey conducted by Patel on whether he should join politics and which party he should join if he enters politics. Ramesh Tilala, one of Trustees of Khodaldham Trust revealed this before media persons in reply to a query. Tilala was in Rajkot to attend the meeting of Trustees of Khodaldham Trust. However the meeting was postponed due to absence of Trustees from Junagadh, Ahmeda...Read More

Rajkot: Amid the controversy over participation of Khodaldham trust Chairman Naresh Patel's son Shivraj Patel in a Congress election rally in Rajkot he today clarified that it was only owing to his personal and family relationship with the candidate and it has nothing to do with his father and his outfit. Shivraj had participated in the rally of Congress candidate for Rajkot South seat Dinesh Chovatiya who was contesting against former minister and BJP candidate Govind Patel. ...Read More

Rajkot: A new Guinness world record for collective singing of national anthem was created in a temple of Gujarat today when over 3.50 lakh people sang it together. What is interesting it that the record was earlier held by Bangladesh which had beaten an even earlier Indian record. Over 3.5 lakh people sang the Indian national anthem 'Jan Gan Man....' in Khodaldham temple situated in Kagvad around 60 km from here on the sidelines of a religious ceremony to set up new idols ...Read More

Rajkot: Amid presence of lakhs of members of Leuva Patel community, a grand new temple of Goddess Khodal was inaugurated today just before the sunrise with first Maha aarti and hoisting of religious flag marking culmination of Pran pratishtha ceremony. The grand temple has been built by Shri Khodaldham Trust, a Rajkot headquartered organisation of Leuva Patel community led by Naresh Patel. The temple has been built at Kagvad village located about 60 km away from Rajkot in Saurashtra region of Gu...Read More