Pramod Tiwari

Pramod Kumar Tiwari (born 16 July 1952) is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress party. He is currently serving as Deputy Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, from Rajasthan Rajya Sabha Constituency. He is a nine-time Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Rampur Khas and Former Cabinet Minister in Government of Uttar Pradesh.

Pramod Tiwari
Tiwari in 2018
Deputy Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 March 2023
President	Droupadi Murmu
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Chairman Rajya Sabha	Jagdeep Dhankhar
Leader of the Opposition	Mallikarjun Kharge (16 February 2021–Incumbent)
Preceded by	P. Chidambaram (interim)
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 July 2022
Preceded by	Harshvardhan Singh Dungarpur
Constituency	Rajasthan
In office 14 December 2013 – 2 April 2018
Preceded by	Rasheed Masood
Succeeded by	G. V. L. Narasimha Rao, BJP
Constituency	Uttar Pradesh
Member of Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh
In office 1980–2013
Preceded by	Kunwar Tejbhan Singh
Succeeded by	Aradhana Misra
Constituency	Rampur Khas
Personal details
Born	(1952-07-16) 16 July 1952 (age 73) Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
Political party	Indian National Congress
Spouse	Alka Tiwari (died on 27 April 2012)
Children	Sona Tiwari (Vijayashri Tiwari) Mona Tiwari (Aradhana Misra)
Residence	Sangramgarh Lalganj Ajhara
Website	pramodtiwari.co.in

Political career

Pramod Kumar 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 Cabinet Minister in Government of Uttar Pradesh from 1984 to 1991. 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 U.P. 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 U.P. from 1984 to 1989. He was also the Congress legislature party leader for a record time.

He was elected as a Member of Rajya Sabha in 2013 by-elections for the vacant seat due to disqualification of sitting member Rasheed Masood and is a 2 time senior member of Rajya Sabha, served his term till 11 April 2018 and was again elected as Member of Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan in 2022.^[5]

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