<p>Bengaluru: Former prime minister H D Deve Gowda on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must have been a very devoted Hindu in his past life, blessed by both Lord Shiva and Lord Venkateshwara, to achieve this feat of consecrating Lord Rama at the temple in Ayodhya.</p>.<p>Prior to leaving for Ayodhya, along with his family members and JDS leader Kupendra Reddy to take part in the consecration ceremony, Gowda described that this was a historical event.</p>.Celebrities, leaders start arriving in Ayodhya .<p>“When Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was there for six years as PM, he had a very tough time receiving a carved stone pillar arriving from Gujarat. I think, PM Modi is a blessed person, perhaps in his past life he must have been a devotee of both Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva and both may have blessed him, otherwise it is highly unlikely to achieve such a feat in one’s life time,” he said.</p>.<p>The JD(S) patriarch asserted that he was not making this statement to flatter Modi as he doesn’t have to. “I am a devout Hindu. I have been going through a lot of scriptures on spiritualism and out of my minuscule knowledge, I feel that this is the only way one could achieve such a feat,” he said.</p>
<p>Bengaluru: Former prime minister H D Deve Gowda on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must have been a very devoted Hindu in his past life, blessed by both Lord Shiva and Lord Venkateshwara, to achieve this feat of consecrating Lord Rama at the temple in Ayodhya.</p>.<p>Prior to leaving for Ayodhya, along with his family members and JDS leader Kupendra Reddy to take part in the consecration ceremony, Gowda described that this was a historical event.</p>.Celebrities, leaders start arriving in Ayodhya .<p>“When Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was there for six years as PM, he had a very tough time receiving a carved stone pillar arriving from Gujarat. I think, PM Modi is a blessed person, perhaps in his past life he must have been a devotee of both Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva and both may have blessed him, otherwise it is highly unlikely to achieve such a feat in one’s life time,” he said.</p>.<p>The JD(S) patriarch asserted that he was not making this statement to flatter Modi as he doesn’t have to. “I am a devout Hindu. I have been going through a lot of scriptures on spiritualism and out of my minuscule knowledge, I feel that this is the only way one could achieve such a feat,” he said.</p>