P. V. Anvar

Anvar PV
Member of Legislative Assembly, Kerala
Assumed office
2016
ConstituencyNilambur
Personal details
Born (1967-05-26) May 26, 1967
Edavanna, Malappuram, Kerala, India
Political partyLDF Independent

Biography

P.V. Anwar is an Indian politician and business man, the current MLA of Nilambur, Kerala.[1] P V Anvar was born in Malappuram district on May 26, 1967 (age 52) as second son of P V Shoukath Ali and Mariyumma. Puthanveettil family is one of the ancient families of Malabar which was very close to Indian National Congress from the great struggle of independence on. P V Anvar was attracted by the same ideology and still he keeps himself close to it. He completed his schooling from Malabar Christian College School, Kozhikkode and moved to DGMMES Mampad College where he did his graduation in Economics.He was the college union chairman during his period. After the studies, as an entrepreneur he started PeeVeeaaR Crushers which grown as 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 2011.

Entrepreneur

P V Anvar is an Indian businessman from Edavanna in Malappuram district of Kerala. He is the Proprietor of PeeVeeaaR Developers and PeeVeeaaR Constructions, that owns the Metro Village Manjeri, a residential project in Manjeri. He is also the Chairman of Benchmarks International School, Manjeri and Iqraa Islamic School,Edavanna. P V Anvar heads Cochin Retreat, Cochin as Managing Director and PeeVeeaaR Lanka Pvt. Ltd.(Colombo, Sri Lanka) as Chairman and Managing Director. He is in the Board of Directors of various companies overseas namely Esa Sulaiman Al Shehly( Establishments and contractors,Jeddhah,KSA), Oasis Company for Trading & Shipping (Cairo, Egypt), Al Tala Trading (Al Qusais, Dubai) and Apex International Contractors & Manpower Supply (Jeddhah, KSA) and PeeVees Realtors Coimbatore in India.

Political career

P.V. Anwar's family was followers of Indian National Congress (INC). So he was also attracted by the same ideology. He was the college union chairman, as a representative of KSU, student wing of INC, during his MES Mampad College life. He became an active Congress worker. Later he changed his loyalty towards Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M). But his water theme park business got into trouble with Revenue & forest departments, headed by Communist Party of India (CPI) Ministers. His attempts to woo the CPI, which was the second largest party in the Left Democratic Front, failed and he became a strong opposer of CPI. He contested from Ernad Constituency as an independent candidate with blessings from CPI(M), against the CPI candidate and Congress candidate and came second in the run in the assembly elections 2011.[2] In 2014 Loksabha Election, he contested as an independent candidate against CPI candidate Sathyan Mokeri, in Wayanad (Lok Sabha constituency).[3] Although he got only 37,123 votes, he helped in the victory of Congress candidate M. I. Shanavas, whose victory Margin against CPI candidate was only 20,870 votes. In 2016 Assembly elections, CPI (M) nominated him LDF candidate from Nilambur constituency. He contested as LDF independent candidate and defeated Congress candidate Aryadan Shoukath, by a margin of 11504 votes.[4] In 2019 lok sabha election, CPI(M) put him as LDF independent candidate from Ponnani Lok sabha Constituency, against Muslim League candidate E.T. Muhammad Basheer, and lost by 1,93,273 votes.[5]

Personal life

P.V. Anwar is married to Sheeja, and they have three daughters and a son. He also later married Hafsath.

Controversies

As a businessman and politician, P.V. Anwar end up in lot of controversies, mainly regarding illegal activities like land encroachment and illegal construction.

In May 2018, a probe report by Kozhikode district administration, had accused P.V Anwar, of illegal construction at Kakkadampoyil water theme park. In his report, Kozhikode District Collector PV Thomas has accused Anwar of carrying out unauthorized construction at theme park. The Kerala State Disaster Management Authority has issued a stop memo to the controversial 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 it and move to court against the order. But in April 2019, High Court ordered immediate demolition of illegal check dam.[6][7][8]

P.V. Anvar started a fresh controversy in April 2019, when he accused the Communist Party of India (CPI), whose ministers are holding the Revenue and forest departments in Kerala Government, is trying to destroy his business ventures, by taking legal actions against his water theme Park. CPI protested strongly against his remarks.[9]

The illegal constructions done by PV Anwar accentuated the vagaries caused due to Kerala Floods 2018.[10]

In February 2021, there were huge Social media uproar against Africa visit of PV Anwar. 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 PV Anwar from Ghana jail.[11][12] Later PV Anwar came out with a clarification in social media that he is at Sierra Leone for business activities. [13]

References
  1. "Kerala Assembly Election 2016 Results". Kerala Legislature. Archived from the original on 16 February 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  2. "Kerala Assembly Election Results-- 2011". Keralaassembly.org. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  3. http://www.mathrubhumi.com/tv/ReadMore1/5566/p-v-anwar-gives-nightmare-again-to-cpi/E
  4. https://www.india.com/assembly-election-2016/kerala/nilambur/
  5. https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha-2019/an-independent-takes-on-a-veteran/article26741989.ece
  6. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kozhikode/cpm-mla-pv-anwar-in-trouble-for-illegal-construction-at-theme-park/articleshow/63330504.cms
  7. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/stop-memo-issued-to-pv-anwar-s-water-theme-park-1.2892378
  8. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/hc-orders-immediate-demolition-of-illegal-check-dam-built-by-p-v-anwar-mla-1.3723121
  9. https://tv.mathrubhumi.com/en/election2019/pv-anwar-allegation-1.18020
  10. "Why Kerala MLA PV Anwar needs to be held accountable for his actions". The News Minute. 22 August 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  11. Naha, Abdul Latheef (6 February 2021). "Malayalis swarm Ghana President's FB page". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  12. "Keralites comment on Ghana president's FB page to release PV Anvar". Mathrubhumi. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  13. "Why Indians flooded President Akufo-Addo's Facebook page". Graphic Online. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
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