R UMANATH:
R. Umanath is a communist
politician from Tamil Nadu, India, and a Politburo
member of Communist Party of India (Marxist) from 1998.
Veteran Communist
leader and former member of the CPI(M)'s Polit Bureau R. Umanath died in a
hospital in Tiruchi on Wednesday. He was 92 and is survived by his daughters U.
Vasuki, who is also the CPI(M) state secretariat member and U. Nirmala Rani.