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Thousands of devotees visited the celebrated Sri Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple connected the New Year Day that some paid and escaped darshan queues were precise agelong from aboriginal greeting connected Thursday.
The HR&CE section officials said that with the Sabarimala Ayyappa devotees visiting the shrine daily, the fig of devotees had crossed the 50,000 since the play started astir a period ago.
The shrine has been steadily witnessing much turnout connected peculiar occasions and Thursday being the archetypal time of the year, the devotees had lined up from arsenic aboriginal arsenic 5 a.m.
Parking woes
The devotees coming from different cities and States had a pugnacious clip successful parking their vehicles. Since determination was nary wide direction, the visitors from different States were clueless astir the earmarked space, they claimed.
Similarly, it was a harrowing acquisition successful dealing the car rickshaw drivers arsenic galore of them fleeced the tourists coming from different towns.
Regular visitors to the Meenakshi Temple said that the officials should person arranged much fig of staffs to grip the crowd. Knowing good that connected the New Year Day, determination would beryllium immense turnout, the unit manning the queue was precise miniscule. There were wordy altercations, erstwhile a fewer of the self-appointed VVIPs violated the queue and entered the sanctum sanctorum, they added.
In different temples including Alagar Koil, Koodal Azhagar Temple, Thiruparankundram and among others, the devotees had darshan marking the English New Year.
There were peculiar work and masses held successful the churches successful the city.
