Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis will be attending thelast rites of Jayalalithaa,with BJP MLA Tamil Selvam. (Photo: PIB) Chennai: Late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s body, draped in the national flag, was brought to the Rajaji Hall in Anna Salai early on Tuesday morning for the people to pay last respects to her.Former PM Manmohan Singh reaches Rajaji Hall in Chennai to pay his last respects to Jayalalithaa. Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will also leave for Chennai, said ANI reports.Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for Chennai at 9:30 am to pay homage to Jayalalithaa, after paying respects to Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar at Parliament House. He will place a wreath on the mortal remains of Jayalalithaa at Rajaji Hall, said PTI.

Jayalalithaa will be accorded a state funeral.Shops and petrol pumps closed early on Monday, and Chennai roads were deserted.Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal is also headed to the Tamil Nadu capital to pay homage to the departed CM.30 pm where she was admitted on September 22, despite efforts to sustain her revival, the Apollo Hospitals said.Clad in white, an emotional Modi, who enjoyed a good personal equation with the late AIADMK leader, consoled Chief Minister O Panneerselvam who broke down.2016),” the Apollo Hospitals said in an official release.Jayalalithaa&China blown film extruders Manufacturers39;s cremation will take place at Marina Beach from 4:30 pm on Tuesday, said ANI.PM Narendra Modi has reached Rajaji Hall in Chennai's Anna Salai where Jayalalithaa's body has been kept.

Flags will be flown at half mast, and no ceremonial functions will be organised, said ANI.Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah will attend Jayalalithaa's last rites too.Security across the state has been reviewed as a precaution against violent or self-harming protests by lakhs of supporters of Amma.Helicopters have been deployed over Marina beach for aerial surveillance during the last rites ceremony.Jayalalithaa’s body was taken to Rajaji Hall in Chennai early on Tuesday, for people to pay last respects to her.Schools and colleges in the state will remain closed for 3 days, and an official mourning period will be observed for a week following Jayalalithaa's death.Earlier, the late CM's mortal remains were taken from Apollo Hospitals in Greams Road to her residence at Poes # Garden.Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi has reached Chennai to pay his last respects to Jayalalithaa.Following her death, Cabinet Minister O Panneerselvam was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.Read: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa dead, says Apollo HospitalsJ Jayalalithaa, the charismatic 6-time Chief Minister who ruled the political arena and Tamil cinema world alike for decades on end, died at the Apollo Hospitals in Chennai on late Monday night at the age of 68.12.Newly sworn-in CM O Panneerselvam was also present at the Hall, along with some other leaders.

The PM was received at the airport by Governor CH Vidyasagar Rao.The Hall was thronged with AIADMK workers and supporters yearning for a last glimpse of their beloved leader.Emotional AIADMK workers and supporters broke barricades outside Jayalalithaa’s residence, forcing police to engage in lathi charge.Both the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha have been adjourned for the day after paying respects to the late CM. Burial of Jayalalithaa’s mortal remains will take place at MGR Memorial there. Modi also spoke to Jayalalithaa's close confidante Sasikala.Read: Panneerselvam breaks down as PM pays floral tributes to JayalalithaaThe late Tamil Nadu CM breathed her last at the ICU of the hospital at 11.It said the Apollo Hospitals joins the nation and the people of the state of Tamil Nadu in deeply mourning her loss.The Central government has declared 1-day mourning in the wake of Jayalalithaa's passing, said ANI.Opposition DMK leader MK Stalin pays tribute to Jayalalithaa.Union Ministers Venkaiah Naidu and Pon Radhakrishnan will represent the Central government at Jayalalithaa's funeral.West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that Trinamool Congress MPs Derek O'Brien and Kalyan Banerjee would attend the funeral on her behalf as she could not make it.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi also arrived in Chennai on Tuesday afternoon to pay his last respect to Jayalalithaa.The Tamil Nadu government has declared 6th December 2016 as a public holiday under Negotiable Instrument Act as a mark of respect to the departed leader.Kerala government has also declared a holiday for all government offices and educational institutions in the state.“This is with indescribable grief that we announce the sad demise of our esteemed Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Puratchi Thalaivi Amma at 11. Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays his last respects to Tamil Nadu's former Chief Minister Jayaram Jayalalithaa at Rajaji Hall in Chennai on Tuesday.30 PM today (05.Modi's convoy left Rajaji Hall after he paid homage to the leader