Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna has categorically rejected his Gujarat counterpart’s Narendra Modi’s proposal and said that the Kedarnath temple will be rebuild by the State Government.
“If anyone wishes to make some contribution or donation, then we would welcome this,” he said while replying to a media query at a press conference in Dehradun on Wednesday. On June 22, Modi had met CM Bahuguna and offered to rebuild the Kedarnath temple, which has been damaged due to cloud burst on June 17.
Modi had tweeted about the rebuild proposition after his meeting with CM Bahuguna. “Met Vijay Bahugunaji. Conveyed to him that Gujarat is ready to take responsibility of renovating the Kedarnath temple complex,” he wrote on the micro-blogging site. Before meeting CM Bahuguna, Modi had spent the day visiting relief camps and carrying out an aerial survey of the places affected by the floods. later, he had described the destruction at Uttarakhand as a “national catastrophe”.