Arya becomes India’s youngest Mayor at 21 from Kerala capital

 

 

TWENTYONE-year-old Arya Rajendran on Monday became the youngest Mayor in the country, taking charge of the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation after she scored a facile win in a three-cornered election to the post. A college student and a CPI(M) member, she was administered the oath of office by collector Navjot Khosa at the corporation council hall.

 

With BJP-NDA and Congress-led UDF deciding to field candidates for the Mayor’s post, an election was necessitated on Monday and the CPI(M) candidate garnered 54 votes, including that of independents, in the 100-member corporation. Actor-politician Kamal Hassan and industrialist and Chairman of the Adani Group Gautam Adani were among those who congratulated Rajendran on her feat.