28-year-old R Priya sworn in as Chennai’s youngest Mayor

The oath of office was administered by GCC commissioner Gagandeep Singh Bedi.

Chennai: R Priya of DMK was sworn in as the mayor of Chennai on Friday.

The 28-year-old councillor is the youngest and the third woman mayor of Chennai.

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The oath of office was administered by GCC commissioner Gagandeep Singh Bedi.

Priya, who is the first Dalit woman to hold the post of mayor of Chennai, was elected as a councillor of ward 74 Mangalapuram in the recently-concluded civic body polls.

A mayor was sworn into the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) for the first time after a hiatus of 11 years.