महिला विशेष -21 वर्षीय महिला आरया राजेंद्रन यांची त्रिवेंद्रम चे मेयर म्हणून निवड . देशातील सर्वात तरुण महिला मेयर बनण्याचं सम्मान त्यांना प्राप्त झाले .

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Arya Rajendran (born 12 January 1999) is an Indian politician, who currently serves as the mayor of the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation. Arya won as councillor from Mudavanmukal ward of Thiruvananthapuram corporation at the 2020 Kerala local body elections at the age of 21 and was appointed as the mayor of the corporation which made her the youngest mayor in the country.

Arya Rajendran is the daughter of Rajendran, an electrician, and Sreelatha, an LIC agent. She did her schooling from Carmel Girls Higher Secondary School, Trivandrum. She is a second year B.Sc Mathematics student at All Saints College, Thiruvananthapuram.

Arya Rajendran is the state president of Bala Sangham, the world’s largest children’s organisation. She is a state committee member of Students’ Federation of India and also serves as CPI(M)’s area committee member at Chala.

She was the candidate of Communist Party of India (Marxist) from Mudavanmugal ward in Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, the youngest candidate in 2020 civic body elections at the district. She defeated the UDF candidate Sreekala by 2872 votes.

Arya broke the record of Sabitha Beegum who became Kollam Mayor at 23 and Devendra Fadnavis, the opposition leader in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly by being the youngest mayor in India. Fadnavis became the mayor of Nagpur Municipal Corporation at the age of 27.