The photo shared by KS Sabarinathan on his Facebook account.Thiruvananthapuram: A day after he broke the news of marriage with Divya S Iyer IAS, Aruvikkara MLA, K.S. Sabarinathan revealed that it's a love-cum-arranged marriage.
"It is a love-cum arranged marriage and we have known each other since the past few months," Sabarinathan told PTI.
In a Facebook post Tuesday, Sabarinathan announced that Divya would soon become his life partner. He also said that the young couple had the support of both families.
He ended the Facebook post by seeking the blessings of all his well-wishers. Soon, the politician-bureaucrat wedding became a talking point on social media.
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Son of late Congress leader and Assembly speaker G. Karthikeyan, Sabarinathan is an engineering graduate and MBA degree holder while Divya a medical doctor.
Sabarinathan said both of them share similar interests and perceptions and their families were happy and supportive of their decision.
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 realized 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.
The wedding is likely to be held here next month, family sources said.
Sabarinathan, who was with Tata Sons in Mumbai for seven years, took the political plunge following the demise of his father.
He had won the Aruvikkara by-poll and became the youngest MLA in the state Assembly in 2015. He later retained the seat in the May 2016 Assembly polls with an impressive margin.
The 32-year-old Divya, who did her MBBS from Vellore Medical College, worked as assistant collector at Kottayam before moving to her home district here.
