18th Governor of Andhra Pradesh
Early life and education
Narayan Dutt Tiwari (born 18 October 1925) is an Indian politician affiliated with
the Indian National Congress party. He was thrice Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
(1976–77, 1984–85, 1988–89) and once Chief Minister of Uttarakhand (2002–2007).
In 1986–1987, he served in Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's cabinet as Minister for
External Affairs. He was serving as Governor of Andhra Pradesh from 2007 until 2009,
when he was forced to resign following a sex scandal. Narayan Dutt Tiwari was born
in 1925, in village Baluti, Nainital district.
His father Poornanand Tiwari was an officer in the forest department, and who later
resigned and joined the Non-cooperation movement.
Tiwari received his education at various schools including, M.B. School, Haldwani,
E.M. High School, Bareilly and C.R.S.T. High School, Nainital.
His initiation into politics came early, when during the Indian Independence movement,
he was arrested on 14 December 1942 for writing Anti-British leaflets opposing imperialist
policies, and sent to Nainital jail, where his father was already odged. Upon his
release after 15 months in 1944, he joined Allahabad University, where he topped
the University in M.A. (Political Science), he continued his education doing LLB
from the same university, and elected as the President of the Students’ Union of
the Allahabad University in 1947.
Meanwhile he was remained Secretary, All India Student Congress, 1945-49. In 1954,
he married Sushila Sanwal, with whom had no offspring.
Career
In the first election in Uttar Pradesh after the independence for the Uttar Pradesh
Legislative Assembly held in 1952, he was elected from Nanital constituency and
became an MLA for the first time on Praja Samajwadi Party ticket.
In 1957, he was elected from the Nainital legislative constituency, and became the
leader of Opposition in the Assembly. In 1963, he joined the Indian National Congress
party, and was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from the Kashipur
constituency in 1965 and was subsequently appointed a minister in the Government
of Uttar Pradesh. After that he also remained Minister for Finance and Parliamentary
Affairs in the Chaudhary Charan Singh Government (1979–1980).
In 1968, he established Jawaharlal Nehru National Youth Centre (JNNYC), a voluntary
organisation. He remained the first President of Indian Youth Congress from 1969
to 1971.
Later positions
N. D. Tiwari was the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh three times: from January 1976
to April 1977, from August 1984 to September 1985 and from June 1988 to December
1988. He was elected to 7th Lok Sabha in 1980, and served as a union minister in
several portfolios in the 1980s: starting with Planning, and also remained Deputy
Chairman of Planning Commission.
Thereafter he became a member of Rajya Sabha 1985-1988,
during this period he also remained the Minister of Industries in September 1985
and in addition to that portfolio, became minister of Petroleum in 1986. He then
served as India's External Affairs Minister from October 1986 until July 1987, at
which point he became Minister of Finance and Commerce, serving in that position
until June 1988, when he became chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the third time.
He was a contender to be Prime Minister of India in the early 1990s but was pipped
to the post by P. V. Narasimha Rao.[10] One of the key reasons was that he lost
the Lok Sabha elections by a mere 800 votes.
In 1994, he resigned from Congress
and formed his own All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) along with senior Congress
leader, Arjun Singh in 1995, but joined back when Sonia Gandhi came at the helm
of affairs of the party two years later, and after a devastating defeat of the party
under Narasimha Rao during the general elections in 1996. Tiwari was elected to
the 11th Lok Sabha in 1996, and again to the 13th Lok Sabha in 1999. He later served
as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, which was carved out of Uttar Pradesh, from
2002 through 2007.
He offered to resign on 5 March 2006, citing his age. He left
office in March 2007 following setbacks for his party in the state elections. Narayan
Dutt Tiwari was appointed as Governor of Andhra Pradesh on 19 August 2007 and was
sworn in on 22 August. Following a controversy over his alleged involvement in a
sex scandal, he resigned as the Governor on 26 December 2009, citing "health grounds"
subsequently he shifted to Dehradun, Uttarakhand.
Last Updated on : 26-06-2013