Chennai: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader W R Varadarajan, who was missing since February 11, was found dead in a lake near Chennai on Sunday, police said.
Varadarajan's foster son could not identify the body as it was in a highly decomposed, but the politician’s wife and other relatives identified the body.
Varadarajan, 64, was a trade union leader and a former legislator. He was stripped of central committee membership of the CPI-M and all party posts earlier this month.
Varadarajan went missing on February 11. He left behind an unsigned note seeking that his body be donated for medical research, donating his laptops and books to the CPI-M's publication "Theekathir", and the balance in his two bank accounts to the party.
Police are investigating the cause of death and will hand over the body after conducting DNA tests, an official said.
Varadarajan, a qualified chartered accountant, quit his Reserve Bank of India (RBI) job, attracted by the communist ideology.
He was elected to the Tamil Nadu assembly in 1989 from Villivakkam constituency.
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