Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa passed away on December 5, 2016 after suffering from a cardiac arrest a day before.
My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Tamil Nadu in this hour of grief.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 5, 2016
Selvi J Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu state, has died in a Chennai hospital, nearly three months after she was admitted there. She was 68. Jayalalitha breathed her last at 11.30pm, hospital said in a statement.