In a political blow to Nilambur MLA P.V. Anvar, Chief Minister and DMK president M.K. Stalin has reportedly declined to grant an audience to the independent legislator, who was seeking to join the DMK’s Kerala unit. The move is seen as an attempt by Stalin to avoid tensions with the DMK’s key allies—the CPI(M), which leads the LDF in Kerala, and the Congress, from which Anvar had initially started his political career.