Thiruvananthapuram, Jan. 6 -- BJP leader and former DGP R Sreelekha has said that she was promised the mayor's post while being fielded as a councillor in the recent elections to the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation. However, she later clarified that she was not 'unhappy or angry' at the party leadership's decision to choose VV Rajesh over her, citing the former's political experience as a councillor.

The remarks come after speculations that Sreelekha, who won from the Sasthamangalam ward on a BJP ticket in the civic polls, was miffed about being overlooked for the mayor's post in an election in which the saffron party came to power in the civic body for the first time. On the day of the mayor's election, soon after Rajesh was el...