Tiwari, Narayan Dutt

He was born in the family of a forest guard officer in the Kumaon region , in a family with a good income. Soon, however, his father, Purmanand Tiwari, resigned from his post on an appeal to the Indians of Mahatma Gandhi to leave all administrative posts, becoming a member of the Non-Cooperation Movement .

Due to family transfers, N. D. Tiwari studied in different cities: Haldwani , Bareli and Nainital . He actively participated in the national liberation movement . In 1942 he was arrested for participating in the anti-British movement “Away from India” and for the production of propaganda posters and pamphlets and served a 15-month sentence in Nainital prison, where his father was already detained.

Having been released in 1944, he continued his studies, became a master of political science and graduated from Allahabad University . In 1947 he was elected president of the student union at this university, in 1947-1949 he worked as secretary of the All-India Student Congress.

After the country gained independence in 1950, he participated in the first regional level elections in 1952 as a candidate from the socialist party. Despite the high popularity of the Indian National Congress (INC), he won the election and became a member of the first composition of the regional parliament of Uttar Pradesh ; in 1957 and 1965 he was re-elected.

Member of the INC since 1963 . In 1965 he became minister of the regional government. From 1969 to 1971, he was president of the youth organization INC.

Since 1969, he was repeatedly a member of the government of Uttar Pradesh - Minister of Finance, Heavy Industry, Sugar Industry, and Local Government. On January 1, 1976, he became Uttar Pradesh’s chief minister, but was forced to resign along with his government on April 30, 1977, leading the state’s opposition (in all, he was Uttar Pradesh’s chief minister three times: in January 1976 - April 1977, August 1984 - September 1985 and June 1988 - December 1989). He was the only Indian politician who was the chief minister of the two states - after the separation of Uttar Pradesh, he became the chief minister of the state of Uttarakhand in 2002-2007.

In 1979, he was appointed Minister for Parliament in the government of C. C. Singh .

In 1980, he was elected a member of Lok Sabhi , became vice chairman of the Planning Commission. In 1985-1989 he was elected to the Rajya Sabha . At the same time, since 1985, he was the Minister of Heavy Industry and State Enterprises , and since 1986, he was also the Minister of Oil and Natural Gas (until October 1986).

He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1986–87 and Minister of Finance and Trade of India in 1987–88.

In 1990, after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, his candidacy was also discussed as the new Prime Minister of India. ^[1] In 1994, he created his own party - the All India Indira Congress (Tiwari ), but in 1996 he returned to the INC and was twice elected to the Lok Sabha in 1996 and 1999.

He was appointed governor of Andhra Pradesh (August 22, 2007 - December 26, 2009), was forced to resign due to sex scandal ^[2] .

In 2017, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party ^{[3] [4]} .

He lived in Dehradun . He died on his 93rd birthday on October 18, 2018.

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• End of the road for Tiwari
• Narayan Datt Tiwari (German)