KOCHI: The BJP’s stunning victory in Thiruvananthapuram has raised a new question: could Kerala’s first woman IPS officer, R Sreelekha, become the saffron party’s first Mayor in the state capital? With just days to go before she turns 65, the spotlight is on Sreelekha, who won from the Sasthamangalam division of the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation. The BJP-led NDA ended 45 years of continuous Left rule in the city, achieving a historic breakthrough in the just-concluded local body polls. Vote counting for the two-phased elections, held earlier this week, was taken up on Saturday. Of the 101 wards in Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, the BJP won 50, the CPI(M)-led LDF 29, the Congress-led UDF 19, and two were taken by independent candidates, according to news agency PTI. Sreelekha ha

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