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After the local body elections in Kerala in December 2020, the Left Front chose several young women leaders for key local body president posts in the state.The 21-year-old CPI-M leader Arya Rajendran scripted history by becoming the youngest .
In six decades, the percentage of women MLAs in the Kerala Assembly has never exceeded 10%
The state with some of the best human development indicators for women in India fails to ensure enough representation for them in its legislature. The state has more than 50% women s representation in local governance institutions. | Arun Sankar / AFP
Kerala’s first Member of the Legislative Assembly was a woman.
Rosamma Punnoose, 44 years-old when Kerala elected its first post-Independence Legislative Assembly in 1957, was elected from the Devikulam constituency in the Idukki district in southeast Kerala. The first MLA to take oath, she became the
protem speaker and went on to administer the oath of office to other MLAs on April 10, 1957.
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UPDATED: December 31, 2020 19:53 IST
21-year old Arya Rajendran became India s youngest mayor after taking oath as chief of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, Dec. 29 (ANI)
Arya Rajendran, 21, the new mayor of the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation (TMC), is reportedly the youngest in the country to hold the post. The CPI(M) candidate won the recently conducted council elections on December 8 from Mudavanmugal ward in Kerala’s capital, beating her Congress rival by 549 votes
before being nominated to lead the TMC on Christmas Day. The TMC is the state’s
Reshma Mariam Roy
KOTTAYAM: Reshma Mariam Roy (21) of CPM became the youngest head of a local body in India when she took charge as president of Aruvappulam grama panchayat in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district on Wednesday.
Born on November 18, 1999, Reshma was 21 years and 42 days when she achieved this feat. She had turned 21 a day before the deadline for filing nominations for the local body polls on November 19.
Speaking to TOI, Reshma said she has several development plans in mind. The major one is constructing a bridge across a rivulet that divides the panchayat into two.
“The medical college hospital is on one side and people from the other side have difficulty in reaching there. Along with the MLA, I will make efforts for the bridge.” She is also planning to speed up construction of an Ayurveda hospital. Addressing issues faced by farmers due to wild animals is also a priority. “I am happy that I am taking up this responsibility on the 50th anniversary of SFI, t