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Narayan Dutt Tiwari

Narayan Dutt Tiwari
21st Governor of Andhra Pradesh
In office
22 August 2007 – 26 December 2009
Preceded by Rameshwar Thakur
Succeeded by E. S. L. Narasimhan
3rd Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
In office
2 March 2002 – 7 March 2007
Preceded by Bhagat Singh Koshyari
Succeeded by B. C. Khanduri
Minister of Finance
In office
25 July 1987 – 25 June 1988
Preceded by Rajiv Gandhi
Succeeded by Shankarrao Chavan
Minister of External Affairs
In office
22 October 1986 – 25 July 1987
Preceded by P. Shiv Shankar
Succeeded by Rajiv Gandhi
9th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
In office
25 June 1988 – 5 December 1989
In office
3 August 1984 – 24 September 1985
In office
21 January 1976 – 30 April 1977
Personal details
Born (1925-10-18) 18 October 1925 (age 91)
Baluti, United Provinces, British India
(now in Nainital District, Uttarakhand)
Political party Bharatiya Janta Party
Spouse(s) Sushila Tiwari (m. 1954–93) (her death)
Ujjwala Tiwari (m. 2014)
Children Rohit Shekhar Tiwari
Residence C1/9, Tilak Lane , New Delhi and 1 A, Mall Avanue , Lucknow,
Alma mater Allahabad University

Narayan Dutt Tiwari (born 18 October 1925 in Baluti, Nainital district) is an Indian politician. He was formerly in Indian National Congress.

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 lodged. 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 remained Secretary, All India Student Congress, 1945-49.


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