Pathanamthitta: The Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) has elected V Vaseef as state president here on Saturday. The Kozhikode native was serving as joint secretary of DYFI. Meanwhile, VK Sanoj will continue as DYFI state secretary. He was appointed to the post recently after AA Rahim elevated to the post of national president.

At the same time, SR Arun Babu has been elected as treasurer of the state committee.

The new DYFI committee include 25 state secretariat members and 90-member-state committee.

S Satheesh, Chintha Jerome and KU Jeneesh Kumar were excluded from the state committee.

For the first time, DYFI elected a transgender member to the state committee.

Changanassery native Laya Mariya Jaison is the transgender member.