Mamata, Azhagiri help 49 stranded passengers

PEOPLE'S POLITICIANS? Azhagiri asked Mamata to get 49 passengers on a train after they missed their flight.

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Madurai: Newly-appointed Union Minister M K Azhagiri helped 49 passengers from Tamil Nadu - stranded at Delhi airport enroute to Chennai from Srinagar - make their onward journey by train after they missed their connecting plane due to a flight delay.

The passengers, who reached Delhi by Kingfisher Airlines, missed their connecting flight as the flight from Srinagar was delayed.

Officials of the airlines allegedly did not make alternative arrangements for their stay nor did they help them to catch another flight to Chennai.

When Azhagiri enquired from them their problem, the passengers narrated their woes and sought his help to reach Chennai as they could not get seat in any connecting flight or train.

Azhagiri immediately wrote a letter to Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee about the plight of the stranded passenger and requested her to help them to reach Chennai by GT express or any other train leaving Delhi, an official attached to Azhagiri's Chemicals and Fertilizer ministry said.

Banerjee obliged Azhagiri by making all the arrangements for the stranded passengers to board the GT Express on Sunday.