Indra Pratap Tiwari

Indra Pratap Tiwari
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office
March 2017 – December 2021
Preceded byAbhay Singh
Succeeded byAbhay Singh
ConstituencyGoshainganj
Personal details
Born (1970-10-27) 27 October 1970 (age 54)
Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party (2016-present)
Other political
affiliations		Bahujan Samaj Party (2012-2016), Samajwadi Party (till 2012)
Spouse
Aarti Tiwari
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(m. 2018)​
ProfessionAgriculturalist, social worker
NicknameKhabbu Tiwari

Indra Pratap "Khabbu" Tiwari (born 27 October 1970) is an Indian politician and a former member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He had represented the Goshainganj constituency as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in the 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh.[1][2] He is a former member of Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party.[3]

Personal life

Tiwari was born to Krishan Gopal Tiwari on 27 October 1970 in the Faizabad city of Uttar Pradesh.[4][5] He completed intermediate education from Bachhulal Inter College, Pura Bazar in 1989. Tiwari is an agriculturalist and social worker.[1][4] He married Aarti Tiwari, a postgraduate from Gonda, on 31 May 2018.[6][7]

Political career

A strongman of state politics, Tiwari started off as a student leader.[3] In 2007, he lost as a Samajwadi Party candidate.[3] In the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, contesting as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate from Goshainganj, Tiwari was defeated by Samajwadi Party's Abhay Singh.[2][7]

Tiwari joined Bharatiya Janata Party in 2016, and went on to defeat rival Abhay Singh by a margin of 11,620 votes in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election for the Goshainganj seat.[6][3][2] In December 2021, Tiwari lost his membership to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly after being convicted and jailed in October that year in a fake marksheet case.[8][9] In the following 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Tiwari's wife Aarti represented the party for the vacant seat, but lost to Abhay Singh by a margin of 13,079 votes.[7][2]

Conviction and release

In October 2021, Tiwari, along with two others, was convicted in a 29-year-old case filed in 1992 by the principal of Saket College for taking admission in B.Sc third-year based on fake marksheets, despite failing in the B.Sc second-year examination in 1990.[8][9] He was removed from his position in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly and incarcerated.[8][9] Tiwari was released on bail in September 2022.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b "Indra Pratap Alias Khabbu Tiwari(Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)):Constituency- Goshainganj (Faizabad) - Affidavit Information of Candidate". MyNeta. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d "Goshainganj Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d "BJP में शामिल इस हिस्ट्रीशीटर को कहा जाता है फैजाबाद का दबंग, जानें कितने दर्ज हैं केस". Dainik Bhaskar. 12 March 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  4. ^ a b "श्री इन्‍द्र प्रताप उर्फ खब्बू तिवारी". Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  5. ^ "Member info - Shri Indra Pratap Urf Khabbu Tiwari". Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (UPLA). Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  6. ^ a b "चुनाव जीतने तक कुंवारे रहने की खायी थी कसम, विधायक बनने के एक साल बाद हुई शादी; आज ग्रैंड रिसेप्शन". Dainik Jagran. 31 May 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
  7. ^ a b c "गोसाईंगंज में सपा को जनादेश, दूसरी बार अभय सिंह विजयी". Dainik Jagran (in Hindi). 10 March 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  8. ^ a b c "Uttar Pradesh: BJP MLA Indra Pratap Tewari disqualified, 8 assembly seats fall vacant". The Times of India. 10 December 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
  9. ^ a b c d श्रीवास्‍तव, पंकज (12 September 2022). "Ayodhya News : 11 माह तक जेल में रहने के बाद खब्बू तिवारी को मिली जमानत, 29 साल बाद कोर्ट ने सुनाई थी सजा". Amar Ujala (in Hindi). Retrieved 14 August 2024.