THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It’s time for wedding bells in the corridors of power. Young MLA KS Sabarinadhan, son of former Speaker G Karthikeyan, is all set to tie the knot with Dr Divya S Iyer, sub-collector of Thiruvananthapuram.
Sabarinadhan broke the news on his Facebook page on Tuesday morning. Soon after, the congratulations began pouring in. ''Kalakki bro!'' went one excited comment.
Though the date has not been fixed yet, the wedding is expected to take place towards June-end, Divya said.
''It all happened very fast. We met only six months ago after I took over as sub-collector here,'' she said.
There was no formal engagement, but the couple's families met last week and gave their green signal, Divya, a 2014 batch IAS officer, said.
The young Congress MLA said in his post that he had met Divya for the first time in Thiruvananthapuram. As they grew closer, he found they had a lot in common including ideas and outlook towards life.
An engineering graduate with an MBA degree, Sabarinadhan was employed with TCS when he decided to plunge into politics full-time after the death of his father.
The youngest son of Karthikeyan and M T Sulekha, a former Controller of Exams in Kerala University, he became MLA in 2015 after Karthikeyan's death necessitated a bypoll in Aruvikkara constituency in Thiruvananthapuram. He beat CPM strong man M Vijayakumar to become a first-time MLA. He was re-elected from the seat in the 2016 general elections by doubling his victory margin to 21,314 votes.
Hailing from Thiruvananthapuram, Divya is an MBBS graduate who secured48th rank in the civil services exams of 2013. The former Kalathilakam who is into dance and music, is the daughter of former ISRO employee Sesha Iyer and Bhagavathi Ammal, a former SBT staffer. She has also penned four books.