Senior AIADMK leader P. Chendur Pandian reportedly passed away at a private hospital in Chennai on Saturday morning following a prolonged illness.
Pandian, 65, was a member of the State Assembly from Kadyanallur in the southern Tirunelveli district, which he won in the May 2011 Assembly polls.
Many senior AIADMK leaders visited the hospital and paid their last respects to the deceased leader.