Arya Rajendran becomes youngest mayor of India

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Anavoor Nagappan, District Secretary, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), announced on Sunday, December 27, that Arya Rajendran will be the Mayor of the City Corporation. She will be the youngest in the country to take the chair. She was elected as the ward councillor from Mudavanmugal in the recent civic body polls. She was the youngest candidate CPI (M) fielded for the local body elections in 2020.

A member of CPI (M) said that her father is an electrician and her mother is a Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) agent. Both of them have been the member of the party for a long time. Arya is a student of Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at All Saints College. She said that she had been attending the party programmes with her father since she was five years of age.

She was active with the work of Balasangam, children’s organization affiliated to CPI (M) and she became its state president. She was the member and worker of Students Federation of India (SFI) in college. Arya said that waste management is the foremost focus of her ward as well as whole city. In the times of COVID-19 it is important that there is a Public Health Care (PHC) at ward level. She added that people are afraid to go to government hospitals, especially those with non-COVID disease so it is important to have a 24-hours functioning PHC which is accessible to everyone.