vIndianz.com (22 Feb, 2010) — Chennai: The mystery surrounding the disappearance of senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and its Central Committee member W. R. Varadarajan, who was in the news over an alleged extra-marital affair, Sunday ended with the recovery of his body from a lake and police suspect he may have committed suicide.
The body of 64-year old Varadarajan, who left his home on February 11 leaving two unsigned letters, was identified by his wife Saraswathy at the Government Royapettah Hospital. The body was lying there for the last few days unclaimed.
Varadarajan, a qualified chartered accountant and a Brahmin had married Saraswathy, a Reserve Bank employee and a Dalit after the death of his first wife. Party sources said, he even got married on the instruction of seniors. Saraswati was a party member and a divorcee. When Varadarajan’s mentor V P Chintan asked him if he was ready to marry her, he said yes.
He had given up his job with the Reserve Bank of India to pursue Left politics.
Indian Express report said his sisters, son and some CPM leaders have expressed their doubts on the highly decomposed body. The party has decided to wait for a confirmation, including DNA test, before officially announcing Varadarajan’s death.
Known to all as WR, Varadarajan was removed from the Central Committee of the CPM at a meeting in Kolkata earlier this month for undisclosed reasons. A few days later, he had walked out of his home in Chennai, leaving behind two letters that indicated he was going to end his life and that personal strife was behind his action. The letters directed that his body be donated for research and his personal belongings be given to the party.
On Sunday, Saraswati identified an unclaimed body lying at the government hospital mortuary since February 13 as that of Varadarajan, based on a mark on his stomach and another on his finger.
In the 1989 Assembly elections, Varadarajan was chosen as a candidate for the Villivakkam constituency and won convincingly.
Proficient in both English and Hindi, Varadarajan was sent to Delhi as a CITU secretary in the late ’90s. For the next eight years, he continued there, returning to Tamil Nadu as a Central Committee member of the CPM three years ago.
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