As the Tamil New Year festival is being celebrated today, the Tirupati Ezhumalaiyan Temple was thronged with devotees on Saturday and Sunday. Devotees waited for 24 hours to have darshan during the free darshan. In Tirumala, the 31 compartments in the Vaikuntam Q Complex were filled and devotees were seen waiting in a long queue all the way to Silathoranam, which is 3 kilometers away.