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5d ago

VV Rajesh Sworn In as Thiruvananthapuram Mayor, Giving BJP Its First Corporation in Kerala

A single Independent’s vote delivered the decisive majority in a council reduced to 100 by a postponed ward poll.

VV Rajesh becomes BJP's first-ever mayor in Kerala.
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Rajesh won the mayoral election held at the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation office with 51 votes in the 101-member council.
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Overview

  • Rajesh won the mayoral election with 51 votes and was administered the oath by District Collector and Returning Officer Anu Kumari.
  • LDF candidate R. P. Sivaji received 29 votes and UDF’s K. S. Sabarinadhan got 17, with two UDF ballots ruled invalid.
  • Independent councillor M. Radhakrishnan backed the BJP, while Independent Sudheesh Kumar abstained from voting.
  • Voting was held among 100 councillors after polling in the Vizhinjam ward was postponed due to a candidate’s death.
  • The BJP, which won 50 of 101 wards to end roughly four decades of Left control, named G. S. Asha Nath as deputy mayor candidate after internal deliberations that had also considered R. Sreelekha.