Happy marriage of politics and bureaucracy: Kerala legislator to wed IAS officer
Kerala will soon witness a politician-bureaucrat wedding with young Congress legislator K S Sabarinathan set to tie the knot with IAS officer Divya S Iyer.
33-year-old Sabarinathan announced the marriage through his Facebook page and posted a photo of him and Divya together and sought the blessing from all.
Sabarinathan is an engineering graduate and MBA degree holder while Divya is a doctor.
Son of late Congress leader and Assembly speaker G Karthikeyan, Sabarinathan said both of them share similar interests and perceptions and their families were happy and supportive of their decision.
“It is a love-cum-arranged marriage and we have known each other since the past few months,” Sabarinathan told PTI.
An elated Divya, now serving as the Sub-Collector in the state capital, said the marriage between a politician and an IAS officer did not have much precedence in the state.
The 2013 batch IAS officer also said she and the MLA had first met for official purposes and their friendship grew later.
“I met sub-collector Divya at Thiruvananthapuram. When we became close, we realised that our ideas, interests and life perspectives are similar,” Sabarinathan said in his post.
Besides the social media post, he also unveiled his wedding plan at a function in his constituency as …read more
