Former Tamil Nadu State secretary of the CPI(M) and three-time MLA, N. Varadarajan, died in Chennai on 10 April 2012. Known as NV in party circles, Varadarajan was one of the 32 members of the united Communist Party of India (CPI) who quit the party in 1964 and formed the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Tamil Nadu.
He had joined the Communist Party in 1943. He continued to work for his party by staying under ground for a year when the party was banned in 1949.
N. Varadarajan was a veteran Communist leader and was the State secretary of the CPI (M) from 2002 to 2010. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu Assembly twice (1977 and 1980). He was elected to the Tamil Nadu Assembly from the Vedasandur constituency in 1967. He was then elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate from Dindigul constituency in 1977 election, and as an Independent candidate in 1980 election.
He was instrumental in creating the Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front and he consistently fought for securing three per cent exclusive reservation for Arundathiyars, a Dalit sub-sect.
After functioning as the party's Madurai district secretary and then as member of the State and State Secretariat committees, he was elected to the Central Committee in 1995. He was elected party secretary in Tamil Nadu in 2005 and again in 2008.
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