Pramod Tiwari

Pramod Tiwari
Member of Rajya Sabha
Constituency Rampur Khas
Personal details
Born 16 July 1951
Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh
Political party Indian National Congress
Spouse(s) Alka Tiwari (Died on 27 April 2012)
Children Sona Tiwari (vijayashri tiwari), Mona Tiwari
Residence Sangramgarh Lalganj Ajhara
Religion Hindu

Pramod Tiwari is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress party. He is a nine-time Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Rampur Khas assembly seat in Pratapgarh of Uttar Pradesh. His name has been mentioned in Guinness World Record for winning continuous from 1980 without losing till date.

Tiwari has been elected as Member of Rajya Sabha in 2013.

Career

Tiwari was chosen as a member of Uttar Pradesh Assembly for the first time in the 1980s. He regularly won the Rampur Khas seat. He was the state minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1984 to 1989. Tiwari has won nine times in a row.[1]

In 2007 election, Tiwari defeated Kunwar Viggyat Singh of the Samajwadi Party (SP) by a huge margin and in 2012 election, he defeated Hira Madi Patel of Bahujan Samajwadi Party by 31,544 votes.

On 6 June 2012, the Congress removed him as the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader and replaced him with Pradeep Mathur, a three-term MLA from Mathura.[2][3][4]

Pramod Tiwari was chosen as a member of UP Assembly for the first time in the 1980 and won Record nine times in a row from Rampur Khas seat in Pratapgarh district. He was the minister of UP from 1984 to 1989. He was also the Congress legislature party leader for a record time.

Record

Pramod Tiwari won the Rampur Khas assembly seat for the 7th time in a row, defeating his nearest rival Mrs. Pushpa Devi of Apna Dal by a margin of over 80,000 votes.

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