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(k) to manage and develop the Somanatha Estate or any part thereof in such manner as the Trustees may deem fit, including setting up buildings or agricultural farms or other schemes not repugnant to the principal objects contained in clauses (a) to (h) hereof;

(l) to maintain and develop goshalas for developing good breed of cows and other cattle and a farm or farms for the same;

(m) to take over, maintain, conduct and manage, other public Trusts of a religious or charitable nature which have as their objects the maintenance, upkeep or conduct of any Hindu temple, shrine or sacred place, of the setting up, maintenance or conduct of any institution, one of the features of which is the object specified in clauses (f) and (k) hereof;

(n) to do all things necessary, germane or incidental to the aforesaid objects."

Before the temple could be rebuilt, Sardar Patel passed away on the 15th December 1950. So long as the Iron Man with the bronze complexion was alive, nobody dared to whisper a word against the reconstruction of Somanatha, which was rightly considered as an Act of historic justice. But with his death, a whispering campaign was set afoot that the whole project was no more than an exhibition of Hindu revivalism. 

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