N. Varadarajan

N.Varadarajan
Member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
In office 1977–1984
Preceded by	O. N. Sundaram Pillai
Succeeded by	A. Premkumar
Constituency	Dindigul
In office 1967–1971
Preceded by	S. Nanjunda Rao
Succeeded by	P. Muthusamy
Constituency	Vedasandur
Secretary, CPI(M) Tamil Nadu State Committee
In office 14 February 2002 – 12 February 2010
Preceded by	N. Sankaraiah
Succeeded by	G. Ramakrishnan
Personal details
Born	1924 (1924) Dindigul, Madras Presidency, British India
Died	10 April 2012(2012-04-10) (aged 87–88) Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Cause of death	Diabetes
Political party	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Children	Two sons

N. Varadarajan (1924 – 10 April 2012) was an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was 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.

Politics

He started his career as a mill worker, he was dismissed by the management for organizing a union. He worked among tannery workers, cigar-makers and sanitary workers.

He joined the Communist Party in 1943. He was doing party work from underground for a year when the party was banned in 1949. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu Assembly from the Vedasandur constituency in 1967. Subsequently he represented Dindigul in 1977 and 1980. He was the party's whip in the Assembly.

After functioning as the party's Madurai district secretary and 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.

Death

"He returned to Chennai on Tuesday morning after attending the party congress in Kozhikode. He walked up the stairs to reach his room in the party office, before feeling giddy. He was a diabetic, suffering from fluctuation in sugar level, said CPI(M) state secretary G. Ramakrishnan.