Arya Rajendran (Photo courtesy: IANS)
Arya Rajendran, 21, a BSc mathematics student who faced her first local body elections as a voter and as a candidate in the Thiruvananthapuram corporation elections, is set to become the youngest corporation mayor in Kerala, and one of the youngest mayors in the country.
Before Rajendran, Suman Koli had become mayor of Bharatpur corporation in Rajasthan at the age of 21 in 2009. Nuthan Rathore was elected as the mayor of Firozabad municipal corporation, UP, in 2017 when she was 31. The country has had other young mayors as well. Sanjeev Naik became mayor of Navi Mumbai at the age of 23 in 1995.