The evening of 24th October 2008, DMK in a show of strength created a human chain supporting the cause of Tamilians in Srilanka, though the timing of the event and the coming general elections, does raise doubts about the sincerity towards the cause. Having cancelled the earlier event scheduled on 21st October, it had to go ahead this time even if it meant battering the heavy rains.
It did rain heavily today evening. But the human chain event went on as decided.
Result: The traffic came to a stand still from late evening till around 9:30 at night putting lakhs of people leaving for their hometowns for Deepavali into hardships and people returning home stranded on water logged roads for hours. Needless to say, MTC buses whoes services become unreliable during rains, were nowhere to be seen.
The photos were taken around Gemini flyover / Nungambakkam High Road area at 8:30 pm. The traffic on the side towards Tambaram has stopped
