[3][4] In 1999 he joined the Labour Party and, along with Vasant Bunwaree and Marie Violet Moothia, he was a candidate of the PTr-PMXD coalition at the September 2000 General Elections in Constituency No.
In Constituency No.12 all 3 seats were won by Alliance Sociale candidates (Varma, Richard Duval and Vasant Bunwaree), defeating their main rivals of the MSM-MMM coalitions (Soudesh Roopun, Eddy Boissézon and Anil Gayan).
Although Varma secured the highest number of votes, he missed out on a ministerial post where as Vasant Bunwaree was appointed Minister of Labour, igniting a bitter rivalry between these two politicians.
[6][7][8][9] At the May 2010 General Elections, Navin Ramgoolam did not grant Varma any "ticket" or investiture as candidate of the Labour Party as he contended to be campaign manager at Constituency No.5 (Pamplemousses-Triolet).
After less than 3 years in office as Attorney General, Yatin Varma was forced to resign by Navin Ramgoolam when the Varmagate road rage scandal broke out in mid 2013.
Despite his repeated presence within Constituency No.13 (Rivière-des-Anguilles/Souillac) before the November 2019 General Elections, Varma again missed out on Labour Party's support, as Ramgoolam instead gave investiture to Rubina Daureeawoo, Lormus Bundhoo and Tassarajen Pillay Chedumbrum.
[20] Soon after Bunwaree's revelations, Paul Bérenger, who was Opposition Leader at the time, circulated a copy of Yatin Varma's letter addressed to the Medical Council in which he solicits his own engagement as Legal Counsel.
At least 6 eyewitnesses, including the son of a retired high-ranking police officer, came forward to support victim Jeannot's version of events but Varma denied his involvement.
Yatin Varma's wrist then had to be treated with an orthopedic cast at the Victoria Hospital of Candos due to a fracture of neck of metacarpal, which Dr Gujjalu (former Police Medical Officer) observed, would typically be sustained after administering a punch.
In further attempts to broker a deal, Allet met with Florent's father Mario Jeannot at the MPA, Mauritius Turf Club (MTC), and Montmartre church in Rose Hill.
[22][23] When these attempts failed, Labour private parliamentary secretary (PPS) Reza Issack started to be involved and organised a meeting at Jeannot's home in Flic-en-Flac where Yatin Varma offered champagne and a book to Florent's mother.
Yatin alleged that an echocardiogram performed on his father in December 2017 failed to detect two blocked arteries, and that chest pains felt in January 2018 were played down as a gastric issue.
Varma observed that as Labour Party's headquarters laid in ruins at Guy Rozemont Square in Port Louis outside Line Barracks, Ramgoolam was caught with Rs 220 million in cash stashed in a safe at his house.
Varma also wrote about the jobless sycophants surrounding Navin Ramgoolam after the 2014 electoral defeat, and who have hijacked the party's controls from its original headquarters to Le Bout du Monde, an exclusive suburb of Ébène.