Three women devotees, four children faint in Thirupparankundram temple queue as Vaikasi Visakam draws large crowd

At slightest 3 women devotees and 4 children reportedly fainted portion lasting successful queue astatine the Sri Subramanian Swamy Temple successful Thirupparankundram, Madurai, connected Saturday (May 30, 2026).

The devotees had gathered successful ample numbers connected the juncture of the yearly ‘Vaikasi Visakam’ celebrations. The shrine, the archetypal among the ‘Aarupadai Veedu’ temples of Lord Muruga, is simply a preferred destination for devotees from crossed Tamil Nadu and different States. Devotees from Singapore, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and respective different countries besides participated successful the festival.

With the somesthesia hovering astir 34 degrees Celsius, immoderate women carrying infants expressed uneasiness and discomfort, having arrived astatine the temple arsenic aboriginal arsenic 6 a.m. “Not galore of america had thing to eat. We lone had a solid of buttermilk served here,” said Pavithra, a devotee from Madurai.

A fewer women, incapable to carnivore the vigor and having stood successful a packed queue for implicit 2 hours, fainted, causing panic among the devotees. “Immediately, women constabulary unit removed them from the queue and provided water, pursuing which they felt a small better,” a temple trustee told The Hindu.

Devotees explicit displeasure

The temple medication had made elaborate arrangements; however, immoderate devotees lasting successful Mela Radha Veedhi expressed displeasure. A antheral who identified himself arsenic Ayyasamy, 78, from Melur asked, “Can’t they supply a abstracted enclosure for elder citizens? We were not carrying immoderate ‘kaavadi’. We conscionable privation to person darshan of the deity connected this important occasion,” helium said.

Another devotee, Prashant from Karur, said that the temple medication had permitted vehicles of immoderate “VVIPs,” portion galore devotees had to trek a agelong region arsenic TNSTC buses dropped passengers connected the Madurai-Thiruparankundram Road itself. From there, devotees had to locomotion astatine slightest 1 km to articulation the queue, helium added.

Many NGOs and Hindu outfits, including the Hindu Munnani, Hindu Baktha Sabhas, and different trusts, person acceptable up shamianas and person been serving prasadam to visitors, including buttermilk and water. Former AIADMK curate R.B. Udayakumar was seen serving prasadam to devotees on with his supporters.

The temple medication said that it had provided basal facilities specified arsenic potable h2o and washrooms.