P.V. Anvar, Trinamool Congress’ Kerala coordinator, announces new political front

P.V. Anvar forms new political front in Kerala, JPPM, challenging established alliances and championing secularism and working class.

Seemingly piqued by the Congress’ rejection of his attempt to find an accommodation in the Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF), All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) State coordinator P.V. Anvar has announced the formation of a new political front in Kerala. 

Mr. Anvar said in Malappuram on Monday (June 2, 2025) that he has named the new alliance Janakiya Prathipaksha Prathirodha Munnani” (JPPM). He claimed that the Aam Admi Party (AAP) would join the coalition. 

Notably, AAP workers wearing Nehru caps and sporting the party’s flag flocked in front of the Nilambur taluk office, anticipating Mr. Anvar’s arrival to file his nomination papers. 

AAP State president Vinod Mathew Wilson told a television news channel that the party’s national leadership would soon take a call.

Mr. Anvar characterised the new alliance as “a people’s alternative to Kerala’s Congress-Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] revolving door politics”.

He said the JPPM would also emerge as a bulwark of secularism against the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) brand of “majoritarian identity politics.”

It would champion the cause of settlerfarmers, autorickshaw drivers, rubber tappers, fishers and the working class, he said.