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Girl student sworn in as India s youngest mayor of Kerala capital
28 Dec 2020 Arya Rajendran thanks party leaders and workers after taking oath in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday. Photo/ Ashraf Padanna
Ashraf Padanna, Correspondent
With an eye on the upcoming legislative Assembly polls in April/May next year, political fronts are infusing young blood into the body politic as never before by nominating novices to head corporations, municipalities and village panchayats, not to mention district and block panchayats.
Ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) fired the first salvo by nominating 21-year-old Arya Rajendran to become India s youngest mayor in Thiruvananthapuram Corporation.
CPI-M has chosen her as its mayor candidate after the party s district and state committees endorsed her candidature. Arya, a second year degree student, is a first-time councillor from Mudavanmugal division of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation.
A spectre is haunting Kerala, the spectre of Communalism. Paraphrasing Marx’s Manifesto seems apt at this time when Marxism survives as discredited dogma and Marxists an endangered species. Left with an obsolete textbook for connecting the masses against the classes, our leftover Leftists are looking for new ways to reach Stalinist paradise. But it’s a Faustian bargain Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has struck with polarisation.
The 75-year-old Comrade is a classic example of the Marxist muddle; his party CPI(M) abhors religion and regionalism but is now socialising with sectarianism. Since the success of a political party is measured in terms of votes and seats, the CPI(M) is almost politically bankrupt, abandoned in ideological ICU. Once the party ruled three states, held over 40 Lok Sabha seats and was present in more than ten states. It lost power in West Bengal and Tripura.
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.
2020 was a successful electoral year for BJP. What will 2021 hold?
2021 will see elections in Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. In Assam, the BJP is the fancied party. In other states, it will look to make major inroads December 24, 2020 / 11:47 AM IST
By the time the stand-off between farmer organisations and the government gets resolved and the green shoots of recovery in the economy grow bigger, the electoral challenges for the BJP may seem never ending.
Still, the ruling party’s performance in 2020, despite the pandemic-induced economic, health and social issues, gave it a sense of that it can win elections against all odds. On the other hand, the opposition seemed to have faltered thus far in the absence of leadership to match.