Finally figured this out.
I had placed jsf*.jar files in my JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext directory and this was apparently confusing glassfish.
So I removed jsf*.jar files from my JAVA_HOME/lib/ext and restarted glassfish.
Admin Console login page appears now.
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