P. V. Anvar

P.V. Anvar is an Indian politician and businessman, the current MLA of Nilambur, Kerala.

Biography
P. V. Anvar was born in Malappuram district on 26 May 1967, the fourth son of P. V. Shoukath Ali and Mariyumma. Puthanveettil family is one of the ancient families of Malabar which was very close to the Indian National Congress from the great struggle for independence on. Anvar completed his schooling at Malabar Christian College School, Kozhikkode, and moved to MES Mampad College where he did his graduation in Economics. He was the college union chairman during his period. After his studies, as an entrepreneur he started PeeVeeaaR Crushers which has grown into one of the prominent crushers in Malabar. He contested from Ernad Constituency as an independent candidate and came second in the run in the assembly elections in 2011.

Political career
P. V. Anvar's family was followers of Indian National Congress (INC). So he was also attracted by the same ideology. He was the college union chairman, and a representative of KSU, the student wing of INC, during his MES Mampad College life. He contested from Ernad constituency as an independent candidate in the assembly elections 2011. In 2014 Lok Sabha election, he contested as an independent candidate in Wayanad constituency.

In the 2016 Assembly elections, Anvar contested as a Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidate and elected from Nilambur constituency, defeating Aryadan Shoukath of Congress. In 2019 Lok Sabha election, he contested as LDF candidate from Ponnani Lok Sabha constituency. In the 2021 Assembly elections, Anvar again contested as LDF candidate and election from Nilambur constituency, defeating V. V. Prakash of Congress.

Controversies
As a businessman and politician, P. V. Anvar ended up in lot of controversies. He has been accused of land encroachment and illegal constructions.

In May 2018, a probe report by Kozhikode district administration accused P. V. Anvar of illegal construction at his theme park in Kakkadampoyil. Kozhikode District Collector P. V. Thomas accused Anvar of carrying out unauthorised construction at the theme park. The Kerala State Disaster Management Authority issued a stop memo to the park in June 2018, due to illegal construction. Revenue department ordered to demolish the illegal check dam constructed by P. V. Anvar for the water theme park. Anvar objected to it and moved to court against the order. But in April 2019, the High Court ordered immediate demolition of the illegal check dam. It has been claimed that the illegal constructions done by P. V. Anvar accentuated the vagaries caused due to Kerala Floods 2018.

In April 2019, Anvar accused the Communist Party of India (CPI), whose ministers held the Revenue and Forest departments in Kerala Government, of trying to destroy his business ventures, by taking legal actions against his water theme Park. CPI protested strongly against his remarks.

In February 2021, there was huge social media uproar against an Africa visit of P. V. Anvar. A section of netizens came out flooding the comment section of President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo's Facebook page with sarcastic meme demanding release of P. V. Anvar from Ghana jail. Later P. V. Anvar came out with a clarification in social media that he is at Sierra Leone for business activities.