Jayalalithaa becomes third Tamil Nadu CM to die while in power

Like her mentor and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, MG Ramachandran, J Jayalalithaa too passed away while in office.

She thus became the third Chief Minister from the state to die while in power. Both MGR and his arch rival and DMK founder, CN Annadurai had died while in office.

She is also the second Chief Minister who died while holding power in India this year. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed passed away in January while he was running the first BJP-PDP coalition government in the state.

According to Apollo Hospitals, Jayalalithaa breathed her last at 11.30 pm last night. She had suffered a massive cardiac arrest the previous night.

She had been in the hospital since September 2.

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