With the BJP stunning ruling LDF and the Congress-led UDF to storm into the city civic body, the big question has emerged– will Kerala’s first woman IPS officer also become the saffron party’s maiden Mayor from here.

Just days to go for her to turn 65, the spotlight is on R Sreelekha to see if the BJP picks her to lead the city corporation that was a Left fortress for over four decades, before being breached by the saffron party in the just concluded local body polls.The counting of votes polled in the two-phased elections, held earlier this week, was taken up on Saturday.

Winning from the Sasthamangalam division of the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, Sreelekha has been projected as the face of the BJP-led NDA for the mayoral post, a key priority for the saffron party which put up an imp

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