Karunanidhi health live updates: Sharad Pawar visits hospital

Stalin and several legislators, including Duraimurugan, left the hospital premises by 10.10pm

Police have increased deployment as the whole of Eldams Road junction at the upscale Alwarpet area is teemed with DMK cadres

Karunanidhi's health is stable and being monitored by doctors: Stalin

Two Sri Lankan government representatives hand over a letter from President Maithripala Sirisena wishing Karunanidhi's speedy recovery

DMK supporters pray for Kalaignar's recovery

NCP chief visits Karunanidhi

NCP leader Sharad Pawar arrives at Kauvery hospital

Karunanidhi supporters pray at DMK chief's former residence in Coimbatore. (Credit: ANI)

Kalaignar supporters pray outside Kauvery hospital

A group of DMK cadres distributing water bottles and biscuits in front of Kauvery hospital

Heavy security has been deployed outside the hospital to contain any unwelcome situation.

Meanwhile, DMK workers have gathered in large numbers outside Kauvery Hospital urging the hospital staff to update them about the leader's health condition.

Nearly 100 priests from CSI Madras Diocese pray for Karunanidhi's health outside hospital

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Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and deputy chief minster O Panneerselvam visited Karunanidhi in the ICU of the hospital. "His health is better and stable. Panneerselvam and I along with (DMK working president) M K Stalin met Karunanidhi," Palaniswami told reporters while leaving the hospital. Ministers D Jayakumar, M R Vijayabaskar and Shanmugam accompanied Palaniswami and Panneerlsevam.

Police restrict entry of DMK cadres at Kauvery Hospital in Chennai

Tamil Nadu chief minister Palaniswami, deputy CM Panneerselvam addressing the media after visiting Karunanidhi at the hospital.

Tamil Nadu chief minister, deputy CM visit M Karunanidhi at the hospital, reports Times Now.

There was a “transient setback” in the health condition of DMK president and former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi, said a medical bulletin issued by Kauvery Hospital here on Sunday night. The three-sentence bulletin issued by hospital executive director Dr Aravindan Selvaraj said the DMK chief’s “vital signs are normalising.” It said, “He continues to be closely monitored and treated by a panel of expert doctors.”

Around 6 PM on Sunday, the multitude camped outside Kauvery hospital, where DMK supremo M Karunanidhi is admitted, began to grow restless. News that all was not well with their leader had trickled out. Assurances by hospital authorities, warnings by police and pleas by DMK leaders did little to placate the crowd, which grew in number and became more recalcitrant as the evening progressed. By 10.30 pm, around 25,000 loyalists had assembled outside the hospital. They tried to scale the wall to get in, overturned barricades and blocked exit routes, forcing police to resort to lathi charge.