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Deepak Joy resigned arsenic the councillor and lawman politician of Kochi Corporation connected Wednesday (May 13, 2026) pursuing his predetermination arsenic the MLA from the Tripunithura Assembly constituency.
Mr. Joy, a two-time councillor, submitted his resignation to Corporation caput P.S. Shibu astatine the Corporation headquarters. This was followed by a farewell astatine the assembly hall.
During his little tenure, Mr. Joy, representing the Ayyappankkavu division, had presented the archetypal fund of the recently elected United Democratic Front governing committee arsenic chairperson of the concern lasting committee. He defeated K.N. Unnikrishnan of the Left Democratic Front successful Tripunithura by implicit 18,000 votes.
Mr. Shibu said some vacancies, that of councillor and lawman mayor, were instantly reported to the State Election Commission, arsenic per norm. He added that a by-election to capable the vacancy indispensable beryllium held wrong six months.
Meanwhile, the Congress volition besides person to place a replacement for Mr. Joy arsenic lawman mayor. However, this is apt lone aft the prolonged parleys wrong the enactment implicit the enactment of the main curate campaigner conclude.
Ernakulam District Congress Committee president Mohammed Shiyas, who has besides been elected arsenic Kochi MLA, remains preoccupied. The DCC is expected to instrumentality a telephone connected Mr. Joy’s successor arsenic lawman mayor.
Congress had fixed divided presumption of two-and-a-half years each to Mr. Joy and K.V.P. Krishnakumar. A akin split-term statement is besides successful spot for the mayor’s post, with Congress councillors V.K. Minimol and Shiny Mathew sharing the position.
Whether a caller councillor volition beryllium appointed lawman politician oregon Mr. Krishnakumar’s word volition beryllium precocious remains to beryllium seen. Congress sources indicated that the second improvement was unlikely, but clarified that the last determination would beryllium taken by the DCC successful consultation with the Congress parliamentary party.
Initially, UDF constituent Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) staked a assertion to the lawman mayor’s station for a year. The IUML besides expressed displeasure implicit the mode successful which the Congress territory enactment overlooked its assertion and unilaterally announced 2 candidates for the station nether a split-term arrangement.
The assertion was yet rejected, chiefly owed to Congress’s beardown performance, which unsocial secured capable councillors successful the 76-member Corporation. Subsequently, IUML’s imaginable nominee for the lawman mayor’s post, T.K. Asharaf, was accommodated arsenic chairperson of the works lasting committee.
