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Jayalalitha is no more

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Jayalalitha is no more

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa is no more. Seventy-four days after being admitted to hospital here, the general secretary of the ruling party All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) passed away at 11.30 p.m. on Monday.

Appollo Hospital’s doctors has revealed that after she did not respond to emergency life support treatment administered after she suffered a cardiac arrest a day earlier. She was 68. Late in the night, her body was being taken to ‘Veda Nilayam’, her residence in Poes Garden in the heart of Chennai. Officials said her mortal remains would be kept in state at the historic Rajaji Hall on Tuesday to enable the public to pay homage.

The death of Tamil Naidu Chief Minister has thrown the State and the party into misery. AIADMK cadres and other members of the public who had massed outside the hospital weep inconsolably, beating their chests, as the news was announced after weeks of anxiety, which peaked on Monday. The State declared seven-day mourning and a holiday for educational institutions for three days. The national flag and the AIADMK flag would be flown at half-mast as a mark of mourning.

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