Karunanidhi health live updates: Sharad Pawar visits hospital

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.

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.