Since Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa was hospitalised on September 22, her party has fought to correct the perception that she is seriously unwell, a perspective that gained from frequent, lengthy gaps in the medical updates that her doctors provided. Each interregnum in the hospital bulletins garnered new talk, much of it from political opponents, that the 68-year-old politician is far more critically ill than acknowledged by her party, the AIADMK, which maintains that her problems are confined to fever and dehydration. Tamil Nadu Governor, C Vidyasagar Rao, who visited her on Saturday evening, confirmed that she is "recovering well".
