India, Jan. 12 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday warned against appeasement politics and whitewashing history, saying those who opposed the reconstruction of the Somnath Temple were still active today, even as he asserted that India was witnessing an era of unprecedented certainty and political stability in an uncertain world.

The PM spoke at two separate events in his home state of Gujarat - first addressing the Somnath Swabhiman Parv at Prabhas Patan in Gujarat, where he said repeated attacks on the Somnath temple over centuries could not be explained as acts of economic plunder alone, arguing that if loot had been the sole motive, the assaults would have stopped after the first invasion a thousand years ago.

He then spoke at ...