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Dec 5,2016:   Tamilnadu Chief Minister, Ms.J. Jayalalitha passes away

Dec 5,2016: Jayalalithaa passes away: Grieving Chennai, Tamil Nadu in lockdown; funeral next to MGR memorial.

Chennai 05 Dec,2016:
J JAYALALITHAA, the iconic Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, who scorched a lonely, often controversial, road from cinema to an almost mythic political status among her followers, who mastered the art of the comeback despite setbacks electoral and legal, passed away tonight after a 75-day battle for her life. She had suffered a massive cardiac arrest on Sunday evening at Apollo Hospitals where she was admitted on September 22 with fever and dehydration. Jayalalitha passed away on Monday night after a prolonged illness that worsened post a cardiac arrest on Sunday evening. She was 68.

The statement from the Apollo Hospitals reads as: "It is with indescribable grief, we announce the sad demise of our esteemed Honourable Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Puratchi Thalaivi Amma at 11.30 pm today," Apollo Hospitals said in a statement. After her cardiac arrest, she was administered resuscitation (CPR) and ECMO (extra corporeal membrane heart assist device) support within the hour. ECMO is the most advanced treatment currently available internationally. Every possible clinical attempt was made to sustain her revival. However, despite our best efforts, the Honourable Chief Minister's underlying conditions rendered her unable to recover and she passed away at 11.30 pm today. Every member of the Apollo Hospitals family, the clinicians, the nursing and the paramedical staff, have strived hard to provide the highest standards of care, we have worked tirelessly, combining the might of the clinical and technological resources at our command with the spirit of healing and compassion that inspires us."
Right through the day, Tamil Nadu was on edge, waiting with anguished breath for word on her health status. Late in the afternoon, around 5.30 pm, emotions ran high across the state and confusion prevailed after Jaya TV, broadcaster of the ruling AIADMK, and some Tamil networks reported that the Chief Minister had passed away.

Woman, actress, Brahmin, Kannadiga. Conventional wisdom would suggest that resume is all wrong for the hard playfield of Tamil Nadu politics and in a Dravidian party. But then J.Jayalalithaa's life and career are the stuff fairy tales are made of. Or movie scripts with happy endings. The fame and celebrity she earned as a successful actress would pale in comparison with what she would achieve in later years. At 67, Jayalalithaa is a political giant not only in Tamil Nadu, where she will take oath as chief minister for the fifth time on Saturday, with two of her three terms punctuated by brief spells of political exile. Brand Jayalalithaa is an undeniable presence at the national level, most emphatically after last year's national election, when her party swept 37 of Tamil Nadu's 39 seats, making her AIADMK the third largest party in the Lok Sabha after the BJP and the Congress. Her stunning victory in the assembly elections of 2011 had ensured that her party's tally of 11 in the Rajya Sabha or upper house of Parliament cannot be scoffed at either, especially in times when the BJP-led central government is in a minority in the house and often depends on regional parties like Jayalalithaa's to help it pass crucial legislation.
When Jayalalithaa was convicted in September last year in a corruption case by a Bangalore trial court, her political rivals celebrated the possibility that she would not be able to contest elections for another decade. That, they reckoned, would mean the end of the AIADMK, a party that revolves completely around its chief. But eight months later, the Karnataka High Court has acquitted Ms Jayalalithaaa and she is back.
To her many supporters Jayalalithaa is Amma (mother) or Puratchi Thalaivi (Revolutionary Leader). She was Ammu to MG Ramachandran or MGR, her political mentor at whose statue she paid tribute in her first public appearance in eight months today. She acknowledges MGR as one of the most important influences in her life. The other is her mother, Sandhya, an actress who fell on hard times and had to send her 15-year-old daughter to a film studio rather than college.

She starred in 28 films with Tamil Superstar MGR, who would later found the AIADMK. Jayalalithaa's last film was Nadhiyai Thedi Vandha Kadal in 1980. In 1982, at the age of 34, she joined the AIADMK and went straight to the top echelons of the party as propaganda secretary, much to chagrin of many seasoned partymen, and was soon nominated to the Rajya Sabha.
In 1991, Jayalalithaa became Chief Minister for the first time. She lost the 1996 Tamil Nadu elections and the DMK government that succeeded her filed the corruption case that she was acquitted in earlier this month. She won her second term in 2001 and her third in 2011.
Jayalalithaa, who is single, speaks English, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi fluently. MGR is said to have sent her to the Rajya Sabha as she spoke English very well.An accomplished dancer, Jayalalithaa trained in classical dance forms like Bharatnatyam, Mohini Attam, Kathak and Manipuri and performed all over India. She also started learning Carnatic music at the age of four and sang several songs in her own films. The AIADMK chief is a voracious reader and has a large private library with a huge collection of books. Her favourite authors are Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. Also Sidney Sheldon, Danielle Steel, Pearl S Buck and James Hadley Chase. Even as an actress, she would always carry books with her to the studio, and would sit quietly by herself in a corner and read between shots.
After the death of Jayalalitha, Many issues arised in the minds of the people, media, politicians etc. and were openly discussed in the media. Here are the some:
AIADMK Leaders Urge Sasikala to Lead Party and Government
Sasikala Pushpa Moves SC for CBI Probe into Jayalalithaa's death
Ram Gopal Verma to Make Film on Close Friend of a Politician, Names it Shashikala
Gurumurthy Seeks Probe on Treatment Given to Jayalalithaa
Jayalalithaa's Niece Deepa Madhavan Lay Claim to AIADMK Top Post
TN Cabinet Demands Bharat Ratna For the Late Jayalalithaa
India's UK Mission Opens Condolence Book For Jayalalitha