Arya Rajendran is a math undergraduate student at All Saints College in Thiruvananthapuram.
Arya Rajendran was elected Mudavanmugal neighborhood councilor in the recent Kerala civic body elections.
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Kerala’s capital city, Thiruvananthapuram, has been elected mayor first, as 21-year-old college student Arya Rajendran is set to take office. She will be the youngest mayor in the country.
The decision to appoint Arya, who was elected Mudavanmugal neighborhood councilor in recent civic body polls, was made by a panel from the CPM district secretary. She was the youngest candidate CPM had submitted for local body polls in 2020.
The local body that dominated the left in the state capital was retained by LDF, but faced a severe setback when two of its mayoral candidates and the existing mayor faced losses. Jameela Sreedharan, one of the top candidates representing the Peroorkada neighborhood in the city, was initially under consideration for mayor. However, a class action lawsuit ensued to choose a younger person for the coveted position.
Arya, a second year Bachelor of Mathematics student at All Saints’ College in Thiruvananthapuram, has been very politically active and is a member of the state committee of the Student Federation of India. Currently she is also the president of Balasangham in Kerala, which is the children’s wing of CPM.
He told reporters on Friday that he would gladly take on the role entrusted to him by the party and that he hopes his education and political work go hand in hand.
Arya was also the youngest candidate in the fray in the civic body election, in which the Left Democratic Front won five of the six municipal corporations and also made great strides in the district panchayats. Before the elections, she had stated that she would focus on improving lower elementary schools in addition to continuing with the rest of the development work that was already underway if she was elected.
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