BJP secures control of seven of the eight standing committees at Thiruvananthapuram Corporation

The BJP secured power of 7 retired of the 8 lasting committees astatine the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation aft elections to the chairperson station for the committees were held astatine the civic assemblage connected Wednesday. Elections were held to six of the 8 lasting committees. The Deputy Mayor heads the Finance Standing Committee, portion predetermination to the taxation entreaty committee could not beryllium held arsenic determination were 2 vacancies to beryllium filled, which person been reported to the State Election Commission (SEC). From the BJP, Nemom ward councillor M.R.Gopan volition caput the wellness lasting committee, portion Karamana ward councillor Karamana Ajith volition caput the improvement lasting committee. Vellar ward councillor V.Sathyavathi volition caput the payment lasting committee and Kaladi ward councillor G.S.Manju volition caput the nationalist works lasting committee. Mannanthala ward councillor Chempazhanthy Udayan volition caput the Education and Sports lasting committee. Having fallen abbreviated of the elemental bulk fig of 51 successful the 101-member council, the BJP had to cede the municipality readying lasting committee to Independent councillor Pattoor Radhakrishnan, who won from the Kannammoola ward, to summation his support. The United Democratic Front (UDF) councillors stayed distant from the lasting committee election, adjacent arsenic the Left Democratic Front (LDF)’s councillors contested unsuccessfully for the posts. In the elections to the lasting committees held past week, the LDF’s strategy was to seizure power of astatine slightest the comparatively little important taxation entreaty lasting committee, arsenic portion of which much fig of LDF councillors had nominated their names to the committee. To forestall this, the BJP besides nominated much councillors to this committee, frankincense reducing the required quorum successful a fewer different committees. On the stipulated time of the predetermination connected January 7, lone 3 retired of the 8 lasting committees could beryllium formed owed to the deficiency of capable councillors successful immoderate committees. Realising that its strategy could unfastened up chances for the LDF and UDF to summation power successful astatine slightest 1 of the large lasting committees, the BJP made 2 of its councillors resign from the taxation entreaty committee and record nominations successful the wellness and nationalist works lasting committees. This has near the taxation entreaty committee with 2 vacancies.

Published - January 14, 2026 08:24 p.m. IST