Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will visit a shrine at Tirumala in India’s Andhra Pradesh state, on December 22. 

Wickremesinghe will arrive in Chennai on December 21 for the visit, officials said referring to the prime minister’s tentative itinerary.

He will take a chopper from Chennai to reach Tirupati airport (Renigunta) which is about 130kms from the Tamil Nadu capital and proceed to the temple by road from there, they said.

Wickremesinghe is set to return to Sri Lanka on the same day after offering prayers at the hill temple, they added.

He was in India in October last, for an official visit and had last year offered prayers at the Guruvayur temple in Kerala.

(Gulf Times)