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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) connected Sunday (December 21, 2025) began the last circular of intra-party discussions to prime its mayoral campaigner for the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation.
According to BJP insiders, erstwhile Director General of Police R. Sreelekha, advocator V.V. Rajesh and elder councillor Karamana Ajith are successful the moving for the post.
Given that the Deputy Mayor’s station is reserved for a pistillate councillor, the BJP is reportedly weighing whether tapping Ms. Sreelekha for mayoralty mightiness beryllium an vantage oregon a governmental oddity.
However, a BJP insider said a conception of the enactment believed that having women arsenic the Mayor and Deputy Mayor for Thiruvananthapuram mightiness hog the nationalist limelight and besides further Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s women empowerment policy.
He noted that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) had made headlines and appealed to Kerala’s sizeable younker demographic by nominating Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] person Arya Rajendran arsenic the “world’s youngest Mayor” successful the 2020 section assemblage elections successful Kerala.
According to the BJP sources, the enactment besides faces the trouble of choosing betwixt seasoned grassroots-level enactment councillors with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) inheritance and a ranking constabulary serviceman for the Mayor’s post.
National leadership
“The State enactment volition apt hole a sheet of imaginable mayoral candidates and permission the last telephone to the BJP’s nationalist leadership, fixed that Mr. Modi had spotlighted the Corporation elections arsenic a important triumph for the NDA. Moreover, the nationalist leadership’s engagement successful the important determination volition negate immoderate country for intra-party rancour implicit the mayoral choice,” helium said.
The BJP attached important governmental import to its bully showing successful the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation polls. The elections gave the BJP a wide pb successful the Vattiyurkavu and Nemom constituencies. Hence, the enactment appeared loath to suffer its electoral momentum successful Thiruvananthapuram to intra-party dissensions.
BJP State president Rajeev Chandrasekhar told reporters that the NDA would denote its mayoral campaigner connected December 26. BJP’s Kerala successful charge, Prakash Javadekar, said the triumph successful Thiruvananthapuram would widen the NDA’s way to triumph successful the 2026 Assembly polls.
Meanwhile, the ruling LDF and the United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition said they would relation arsenic a constructive opposition.
CPI(M) territory secretariat subordinate and councillor representing Pettah ward S.P. Deepak condemned the BJP for “bringing Hindutva into the assembly hall” by allowing NDA supporters to render an RSS anthem (Gana Geetham) successful the hall.
