Shah, Jaitley likely to visit Jayalalithaa at Apollo Hospital tomorrow

Top BJP leaders Amit Shah and Arun Jaitley are likely to visit chief minister J Jayalalithaa at the Apollo Hospital here on Wednesday, party sources said on Tuesday.

Top BJP leaders Amit Shah and Arun Jaitley are likely to visit chief minister J Jayalalithaa at the Apollo Hospital here on Wednesday, party sources said on Tuesday.

Top BJP leaders Amit Shah and Arun Jaitley are likely to visit chief minister J Jayalalithaa at the Apollo Hospital here on Wednesday. (Arvind Yadav/ HT File Photo)

BJP national president Shah and Union finance minister Jaitley are expected to arrive at the Chennai airport from Delhi and return the same day, airport sources said.

Jayalalithaa, 68, was admitted to the hospital on September 22 after she complained of fever and dehydration.

A stream of high-profile visitors, including governors of Tamil Nadu and Kerala Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao and P Sathasivam, Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and chief ministers of Kerala and Puducherry Pinarayi Vijayan and V Narayanasamy have visited the hospital.

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