Kathmandu [Nepal], May 12 (NT): After offering prayers in the Muktinath temple, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Pashupatinath temple in Nepal's capital Kathmandu.

He landed at Kathmandu in an IAF chopper as he immediately embarked on to a visit to the Pashupatinath temple.

Prime Minister Modi was warmly welcomed and greeted by officials and several local leaders of Kathmandu. PM here offered prayers to the deity as priests of iconic Pashupatinath temple made suitable arrangements for the same.

After wrapping up all rituals in Pashupatinath, PM Modi signed the visitor's book and was presented a miniature of the Pashupatinath temple by the authorities.

India shares a warm history with the Pashupatinath temple as in 2016 following the visit of the then president Pranab Mukherjee to Nepal.

Under his guidance, the Government of India helped the Himalyeen country in establishing the Nepal-Bharat Maitri Pashupatinath Dharamshala project.

Now Prime Minister Modi will leave for the Hyatt Regency in Kathmandu where he is scheduled to meet the Nepali Congress, former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda', former foreign affairs minister Upendra Yadav and the members of Rashtriya Janata Party.

PM Modi is scheduled to depart for returning to India after receiving a civic reception in Kathmandu at Rashtriya Sabha Griha. (NT)