Kerala is going to set a record as it’s capital Thiruvananthapuram is going to have a mayor who is a college student and is just 21-years-old. Arya Rajendra, 21, who recently contested the civic polls is going to become the next Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram, CPM, says reports. She will be the youngest mayor anywhere in the country.
The decision to appoint Arya, who was elected as the ward councillor from Mudavanmugal in the recently held civic body polls, was taken by by a panel of CPM district secretariat. She said she would take up any position that the party entrusts her. She was the youngest candidate CPM had fielded for the local body polls in 2020. Arya is pursuing bachelor’s in Science and is in the second year. She is studying at All Saints college in Thiruvananthapuram and had won from the Mudavanmughal ward of the city corporation, bagging 2,872 votes, 549 more than the rival Congress candidate. She is the state president of Balasangam, the children’s wing of the Left Party, and is also an activist of the Students Federation of India (SFI).
