Half of the seats in Kerala’s local bodies are reserved for women, while top elected posts are kept aside for women for alternate terms. The last mayor being popular leader V K Prasanth, it was the turn of a woman to hold the post. The two women leaders the CPM had projected as mayor candidates both lost the election.
Despite being active in politics for years, Arya had to keep her academic life apart. Both her college and the school she studied in, Carmel Girls’ Higher Secondary School, are Church-run institutions that don’t look favourably on campus politics. Arya expects she won’t be able to attend classes regularly once she takes up her new assignment. “But all my teachers and friends are really helpful. I will figure out a way to continue my studies as well,” she says.
Thiruvananthapuram s Arya Rajendran likely to become youngest mayor ever at 21
The 21-year-old comes from a lower middle class family and is the daughter of an electrician K Rajendran and LIC agent Sreelatha Rajendran
BusinessToday.In | December 26, 2020 | Updated 10:36 IST
Arya Rajendran likely to become next Thiruvananthapuram mayor (Image: Twitter)
Twenty one-year-old Arya Rajendran is likely to become the next Thiruvananthapuram mayor. The CPI(M) s Thiruvananthapuram district secretariat recommended her name during a party meet. If her name gets approved, Rajendran will become the youngest ever mayor in India.
The 21-year-old comes from a lower middle class family and is the daughter of an electrician K Rajendran and LIC agent Sreelatha Rajendran. Arya Rajendran, a second year BSc Maths student at the All Saints College in Kerala, had won with 2,872 votes from the Mudavanmughal ward of the city corporation.