Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today offered prayers at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala. <br/><br/>On arrival at the ancient shrine, Wickremesinghe and his wife Maitree were accorded traditional welcome by temple priests and functionaries, who later conducted them to the sanctum sanctorum of the 2000-year-old shrine. <br/><br/>The Sri Lankan Prime Minister and his wife spent over 20 minutes at the shrine. The last visit of Wickremesinghe to the temple in his capacity as Prime Minister was in 2002.