COLOMBO (News 1st) – DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi – five-time Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu who dominated the state’s politics for six decades along with arch-rivals M.G. Ramachandran and later, Jayaram Jayalalithaa died at a hospital in Chennai this evening.

The 94-year-old leader was admitted to the hospital 11 days ago, on the 28th of July, after he contracted urinary tract infection and developed a high fever.

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