Chennai welcomes 2025 with grand celebrations
The people of Chennai ushered in the New year 2025 with spiritual fervour traditional gaiety and great enthusiasm in Tamil Nadu.
As the clock struck 12, shouts of ‘Happy New Year’ rent the air, with the decibel level reaching a crescendo, as lakhs of people, including women and children, who had congregated at the World second longest Marina beach ushered in the 2025 in high ‘spirits’.
According to reports nearly ten lakh people have thronged the beach fronts across the State, including at the sprawling Marina.
People also burst crackers to welcomes 2025, despite police ordering a ban as fireworks lit the night skies.
Tamil Nadu Governor R. N Ravi, Chief Minister M K Stalin and leaders of various political parties greeted the people on the occasion and wished that the dawn of 2025 would usher in prosperity, wealth and happiness in their lives.
Across the State the New Year was celebrated with fervour with the police deploying one lakh personnel in all districts to ensure a peaceful, safe and happy celebrations, devoid of any untoward incident
It was a sea of humanity at the Marina beach front as the milling crowd celebrated the occasion with fervour.
The scene was no different in Santhome beach, Besant nagar Elliots beach and the Neelangarai as the entire ECR stretch beach front was teemed with people thronging the beach to usher in 2025.
The new year was also celebrated by various residential associations.
Police have made elaborate security arrangements and more than 20,000 police personnel were deployed on security duty in the city, including at the entire ECR stretch and across the Chennai city.
Milling crowds were seen in several hotels and shopping malls and at theme parks to celebrate the new year.
Special midnight masses were held in various churches across the state and the churches were tastefully decorated and illuminated to mark the occasion.
Thousands of faithfuls thronged the Santhome Basilica in the city and at Velankanni Church in Besant Nagar in the city.