Union Minister MK Azhagiri helped 49 passengers from Tamil Nadu -- who were stranded at Delhi airport enroute to Chennai from Srinagar -- make their onward journey by train after the delayed flight saw them missing the connecting plane.
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 passengers and requested her to help them 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 Saturday.