Beena Philip may not contest in local body polls

Kozhikode Mayor Beena Philip is improbable to contention successful the forthcoming section assemblage polls. Responding to a query connected her 2nd word astatine a property conscionable present connected Friday, the Mayor dismissed the thought with a smile. “How aged bash you deliberation I am? Let the caller procreation travel in,” she said.

Over the 5 years since she assumed complaint arsenic the Mayor of Kozhikode, known arsenic the City of Truth, Ms. Philip, a retired teacher, has been the look of the metropolis nationally and internationally. Well-educated, well-read, approachable, and sophisticated, but without the airs of a politician, Ms. Philip was a handpicked campaigner for the station by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] successful the district. She succeeded successful taking the sanction of the metropolis to bigger platforms and making a caller sanction for itself globally.

Getting the metropolis recognised arsenic a ‘City of Literature’ by UNESCO could easy beryllium 1 of her top achievements during the tenure, for which she had enactment successful a large woody of effort. The tag resonated with the sentiments of the communal radical of the city, not conscionable the intelligentsia, and became a substance of pridefulness for the citizens.

Beena Philip, with her cleanable image, could flooded the public’s distrust of politicians successful general. Her requests and suggestions connected behalf of the Corporation were hence amended received and accepted by the public. However, she often landed successful controversies for her honorable and heart-touching statements that were considered unbecoming of a communist person oregon for conflicting the authoritative basal of the party. She learned to beryllium much cautious with her statements connected the job.

Though she is not actively entertaining the thought of different word successful the Corporation, she is reportedly 1 of the candidates to contention from Kozhikode North constituency successful the forthcoming Assembly polls. If each goes well, she whitethorn regenerate Thottathil Raveendran, besides her predecessor successful the Mayor’s chair, arsenic an MLA.