Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit passed away on Saturday in the national capital, according to media reports.
Dikshit famously led the Congress Party to victory in three consecutive Delhi Assembly elections.
The senior Congress Party leader was 81.
Times Now reported that she was admitted to a Delhi hospital at 10:30 am on Saturday morning, and passed away at 3:30 pm.
Citing sources, the news channel reported that Dikshit had cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heart beat) and she was immediately put on a ventilator.
(HuffPost India will update this post with more details).