Since mid-August, an unbiased MLA elected underneath the banner of the Left Democratic Entrance (LDF) from Nilambur constituency in Malappuram district has been rocking Kerala politics. Puthen Veettil Anvar aka P.V. Anvar has been within the limelight as a result of he raised allegations towards Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, his political secretary P. Sasi, and a gaggle of cops led by ADGP M.R. Ajit Kumar.
The State watched bemusedly because the ruling coalition MLA stored on strengthening his tirade towards the federal government. His costs included nepotism, corruption, criminality, unlawful wealth amassment, and communal bias.
However these watching Mr. Anvar’s face-off with the federal government have been shocked to see it worsening right into a showdown within the final week of September when the Chief Minister and his occasion, the CPI(M), disowned him. Reviews point out that Mr. Anvar held discussions with the DMK management in Tamil Nadu on Sunday forward of his deliberate announcement of a brand new occasion.
Mr. Anvar hogged Malayalam TV information channels for hours on finish as he continued his broadside. “If this example continues, the CPI(M) won’t even get 25 seats within the subsequent Meeting election in Kerala,” he mentioned.
Mr. Anvar minces no phrases. The CPI(M) compares him to P.C. George, the previous Kerala Congress MLA from Poonjar notorious for his acerbic tongue. Mr. George has been dumped by each the ruling and Opposition fronts in Kerala. “Anvar too will meet the destiny of P.C. George,” CPI(M) Malappuram district secretary E.N. Mohandas mentioned.
Political household
Hailing from Edavanna within the conventional Mapila area of Malappuram, Mr. Anvar, 57, claims himself to be a social employee with a fantastic political household legacy. His father P.V. Shoukath Ali was a freedom fighter and had hosted first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at his home. “I grew up in a robust Congress base. So did the Communist ideologue E.M.S. Namboodiripad,” Mr. Anvar would say at any time when his Communist pathways are underneath query. The CPI(M) by no means thought-about him a celebration man, however he emerged as a well-liked unbiased backed by the CPI(M) in Nilambur, Malappuram.
Most political events, be it the Congress, the Muslim League, the CPI or the CPI(M), are cautious of Mr. Anvar due to his unpredictable and brazen nature. A graduate in economics, he was an energetic Kerala College students Union member and faculty union chairman at MES Mampad School, Mampad, within the mid Nineteen Eighties. He grew to become Youth Congress district vp and a trusted ally of present Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Okay. Sudhakaran when he was the State Forest Minister within the early years of 2000. Shifting allegiance, Mr. Anvar joined the Democratic Indira Congress (DIC), shaped by former Chief Minister Okay. Karunakaran.
He began his electoral assays in 2011 when he contested to the Meeting from Eranad with the tacit assist of the CPI(M). When the UDF’s P.Okay. Basheer triumphed by polling 58,698 votes, Mr. Anvar grew to become the runner up with 47,452 votes. After an unsuccessful Lok Sabha try from Wayanad in 2014, Mr. Anvar tasted his first electoral victory from Nilambur in 2016, which he repeated in 2021.
Controversies by no means deterred him; somewhat they chased him all through his life. “I used to be born in fireplace, and sunshine can’t wither me,” he says.
He has been concerned in lots of ongoing prison instances, together with the homicide of autorickshaw driver Manaf in 1995, unlawful development within the ecologically delicate space of Kakkadampoyil, land grabs, and dishonest. His gutsy and confrontational fashion has received him many followers. However the alienated ruling occasion seems sure to take him on for the injury Mr. Anvar prompted for the federal government, notably its Chief Minister.
His dormant instances are most certainly to be revived and given enamel. Contemporary instances have begun to be slapped towards him, the most recent being a violation of Officers Secrets and techniques Act. The approaching days are going to be extra turbid and testing for Mr. Anvar.
Printed – October 06, 2024 01:34 am IST