[Marxistindia] Comrade K Varadarajan

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Press Statement


The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued  
the following statement:

Comrade K Varadarajan

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses  
its profound grief and shock at the death of Comrade K Varadarajan,  
former member of the Polit Bureau and currently a special invitee to  
the Central Committee of the CPI(M). He died this afternoon at Karur,  
Tamilnadu, following a respiratory problem. He had gone to visit his  
son in Karur where he was caught in the lockdown. He was 73 years old.

Born in a middle-class family and trained as a civil engineer,  
Varadarajan joined the Party in 1970. He became a member of the  
Tamilnadu State Committee of the Party in 1978 and a member of its  
Secretariat in 1986. He was elected to the Central Committee of the  
Party in 1998 and to the Central Secretariat in 2002. He was elected  
to the Polit Bureau at its 18th Congress in 2005. He functioned from  
the Party Centre in Delhi as a member of the Central Secretariat and  
as a Polit Bureau member from 2005 to 2015.

Working in the Kisan Sabha Varadarajan was elected as the Secretary of  
the Tamilnadu unit of the All India Kisan Sabha in 1986 and went on to  
become its all India General Secretary in 1998. Currently he is one of  
the Vice-Presidents of the AIKS.

Comrade Varadarajan remained underground for two years during the  
Emergency and was also arrested and jailed.

He was a very affable comrade, simple in nature and had frugal requirements.

The Polit Bureau pays homage to his memory. It sends its heartfelt  
condolences to his daughter, son and family.



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