In Pictures | Moments from meeting between Jayalalithaa and other top leaders

Updated: Dec 6, 2016, 10:54 AM IST

All top India leaders expressed grief and offered condolences following Amma's death on Monday.

Top national leaders have paid rich tributes to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and hailed her for being powerful voice for the weaker sections.

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The 67-year-old leader, who suffered a massive cardiac arrest on Sunday evening, passed away at 11:30 pm on Monday, after battling for life for 75 days, the Apollo Hospitals said in a statement.

President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers, Congress President Sonia Gandhi, and various other top leaders tonight condoled Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's demise and paid glowing tributes to her.

(From agency inputs)

In this photograph released by India's Press Information Bureau on June 14, 2016, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, and leader of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) party, Jayalalithaa Jayaram, (L), meets with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. (Photo courtesy: AFP)

Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee (R) gestures while speaking with key ally, Jayalalitha Jayaram, at the BJPs ruling coalition meeting in New Dellhi, 27 March 1999. It is the first meeting of the ruling coalition after it completed one year in office this month. (Photo courtesy: AFP)

TN Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa (L) shakes hands with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Fort St George Complex in Chennai on July 20, 2011. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived at Chennai port, a focus of US trade and investment, on the second leg of her trip to the India. (Photo Courtesy - AFP)

President of the opposition Congress (I) Party, Sonia Gandhi (R), gestures as she speaks to AIADMK leader Jayalalitha Jayaram (L) during a function in New Delhi, 29 March 1999. Jayalalitha, a key partner in Indian Premier Atal Behari Vajpayee's coalition, stuck to her demand for the dismissal of Defence Minister George Fernandes, though she did not threaten her partners with a withdrawal from the ruling coalition. (Photo Courtesy - AFP)

India's Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani (L) and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and leader of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) party J.Jayalalithaa laugh as they address a press conference in Madras, 01 February 2004. The two leaders met to discuss their political alliance in advance of India's forthcoming general elections. (Photo Courtesy - AFP)

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (R) greets unseen people as the chief minister of India's southern state of Tamil Nadu J. Jayalalithaa (L) looks on, upon his arrival at the city airport, in Madras 23 October 2004. Singh later launched the commercial phase of India's fast breeding reactor programme, at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) in Kalpakkam, some 80 km south of Madras. The visit is the first to Tamil Nadu by Singh as India's Prime Minister. (Photo Courtesy - AFP)

Leader of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIMDMK) political party and Chief Minister of Tamil NaduJ.Jayalalithaa (R) shakes hands with India's Health Minster Sushma Swaraj in Madras 17 February 2004. Swaraj came to the capital city of Tamil Nadu to discuss issues regarding the political alliance with Jayalalithaa's party and Swaraj's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party for the forthcoming general election campaign. (Photo Courtesy - AFP)

Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu J.Jayalalithaa (L) poses with fellow former chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav (Uttar Pradesh) (2R) as they arrive for a meeting at Third Front party headquarters in New Delhi, 14 July 2007. (Photo Courtesy - AFP)

Australian Prime Minister John Howard (R), shares a laugh with state chief minister J.Jayalalithaa (L), during a meeting in Chennai, 08 March 2006. Howard is on a four-day visit to India to boost trade and deepen the strategic relationship between the two countries. (Photo Courtesy - AFP)​