No special tickets will be available for this year’s Vaikunta Ekadasi festival at Sri Parthasarathy Perumal temple in Triplicane. The festival falls on Saturday and free darshan will start by 6 a.m.
Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Minister P. K. Sekarbabu said that the department had been slowly attempting to do away with special darshan tickets in temples as the government wants all devotees to be treated equally.
The Pournami darshan at the Arunachaleswarar temple in Tiruvannamalai had been made free for the past few months. At the Parthasarathy Perumal temple, devotees seeking free darshan can enter through the east gopuram.
