Honey Benjamin

Honey Benjamin
Mayor Of Kollam Municipal Corporation
In office
28 February 2025 – 26 December 2025
Preceded byPrasanna Earnest
Succeeded byA. K. Hafeez
ConstituencyVadakkumbhagam,
Kollam City Corporation
(Ward No:9)
In office
16 December 2019 – 27 December 2020
Preceded byV. Rajendrababu
Succeeded byPrasanna Earnest
In office
25 November 2014 – 31 October 2015
Preceded byPrasanna Earnest
Succeeded byV. Rajendrababu
Personal details
Born
Kollam
PartyCommunist Party of India
SpouseBenjamin
ChildrenHamin J.Benjamin,
Sandra J.Benjamin

Honey Benjamin was the mayor of Kollam city. She is a CPI party member and politician from Kollam city, India. She was the first CPI mayor of Kollam City Corporation.[1][2][3][4] Benjamin first became mayor in 2014 by one vote,[5] with a total of 28 votes against her opponent Maya Ganesh of the UDF's 27 in the council election.[6] This election was held due to the resignation of ex-mayor Prasanna Earnest as part of an agreement with the LDF due to a no-confidence motion raised by the UDF.[6] However in the 2015 election, the name of V. Rajendrababu was proposed by Benjamin and he became the next mayor instead.[7] She later returned to power following the February 2025 election with Honey securing 37 votes, while UDF candidate and Maruthadi ward councillor Sumi M received seven votes.[8] She then lost the December 2025 election to A. K. Hafeez of the INC, ending 25 years of continuous LDF governance.[9]

Works and contributions

As mayor, Benjamin focused on issues such as waste management and the provision of electricity.[10] In January 2020, Benjamin announced a campaign to use drone-mapping to gather information about resource management in the city of Kollam.[11]

To promote shooting sports in Kollam district an indoor shooting range was opened in the city, Mayor Honey Benjamin lighted the traditional lamp.[12] Honey Benjamin presided over the inauguration of Kollam women’s police station which has become the second district in the State to have a women’s police station whereas Kannur holds the first place.[13]

References

  1. ↑ "Honey Benjamin New Mayor of Kollam". TNIE. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Women's police station opened in Kollam". The Hindu. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "1,000 dogs to be sterilised in 90 days". The Hindu. 30 September 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Kollam Pooram draws huge crowds". The Hindu. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  5. ↑ "Honey Benjamin New Mayor of Kollam". The New Indian Express. 26 November 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  6. 1 2 "In a first, Kollam gets CPI mayor in Honey Benjamin". Deccan Chronicle. 26 November 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  7. ↑ "V. Rajendrababu sworn in Mayor of Kollam". The Hindu. 19 November 2015. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  8. ↑ "CPI's Honey Benjamin elected as Kollam Mayor". The New Indian Express. 27 February 2025. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  9. ↑ "A.K. Hafeez assumes office as first UDF Mayor of Kollam". The Hindu. 26 December 2025. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  10. ↑ www.ETGovernment.com. "Kollam to accord waste management as top priority: Mayor Honey Benjamin – ET Government". ETGovernment.com. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  11. ↑ Staff Reporter (29 January 2020). "Kollam Corpn. to create awareness of survey". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  12. ↑ "Kollam gets an indoor shooting range". The Hindu. 25 January 2015. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  13. ↑ "Women's police station opened in Kollam". The Hindu. 29 September 2015. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
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