As thousands gather and pray for the speedy recovery of Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa, the doctors at Apollo Hospital on Monday announced that she was very critical. Doctors say that she has been put on extracorporeal life support organisation and other life support system. While security has been beefed up to control the heavy crowd that thronged the hospital and AIIMS specialists flown to help with the treatment, thestatesman.com brings to live updates on the condition of Jayalalithaa.

8.00PM

AIADMK leaders meet at party headquarters. The meeting will decide party's course of action in the event of Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa passing away. She is said to be in a critical situation.

5.30 PM

Violence breaks outside Apollo Hospital in Chennai as supporters throw stones at police and storm barricades.

4.30 PM

AIADMK MLAs to hold emergency meet at 6 PM.

3.30 PM

Tamil Nadu Governor Vidya Sagar Rao has reached Apollo Hospital even as a consulting doctor has declared Jayalalithaa's situation as 'grave.'

“The situation is extremely grave but I can confirm that everything possible is being done to give her the best chance of surviving (the cardiac arrest),” Richard Beale said in a statement. Beale, from the London Bridge Hospital, has been regularly consulted by doctors at Apollo Hospital in Chennai ever since Jayalalitha was admitted in September.

3.20 PM

AIADMK legislators have gathered at the Apollo Hospital in Chennai amid speculation that the party was looking at a successor to Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. “We have been asked to wait till further information,” an AIADMK lawmaker who did not want to be identified by name said from the hospital. The legislators have assembled inside a hall in the Apollo complex.

3. 10 PM

Jayalalithaa “remains in a grave situation”, despite best efforts: Apollo Hospital.

“Despite our best efforts, our beloved CM remains in a grave situation,” Apollo Hospital's Joint Managing Director Sangita Reddy said in a Twitter post.

3.00 PM

Karnataka has suspended all bus services to Tamil Nadu in light of the growing unrest in the state.

2.20 PM

Several AIADMK members on Monday took part in special prayers at places of worship across Tamil Nadu for the speedy recovery of their leader, J Jayalalithaa.

2:00 PM