Kerala gets its first BJP mayor: Is the ‘red fortress’ collapsing? What it means for state assembly elections | India News
NEW DELHI: Kerala got its first BJP mayor, VV Rajesh, after the National Democratic Alliance won Thiruvananthapuram civic body elections, marking an end to 45 years of Left Democratic Front’s (LDF) rule in the city.Thiruvananthapuram was treated like “inherited property under Left–Congress dominance for decades,” said state BJP general secretary Anoop Antony Joseph.Prime Minister Narendra…