Hari Shankar Tiwari


Hari Shankar Tiwari is an Indian politician from Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Tiwari was a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the village Tanda, Chillupar in Gorakhpur district. His gangwar with dreaded don of Gorakhpur Ex MLA Virendra pratap shahi is very famous in Gorakhpur. Virendra pratap shahi was called as Sher-e-purvanchal belongs from a powerful landowning Thakur caste.

Parliamentary politics

Hari Shankar Tiwari was the first public figure in Indian political history to be elected to the legislature from prison. Elected from Chillupar, he remained a member of the legislative assembly for 23 years continuously.
In 1997, he was founding member of Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress along with Jagdambika Pal, Rajeev Shukla and Shyam Sunder Sharma,Bacha Pathak
He has been a cabinet minister at the State Assembly in several governments, including the Kalyan Singh government. He was
also a minister in the Mulayam Singh Yadav government.
In 2000, he was the Stamp and Registration cabinet minister in Ram Prakash Gupta's government. In 2001, he was the cabinet minister in Rajnath Singh's government and also in year 2002, he was the cabinet minister in Mayawati's Government.

Family

Tiwari has several relatives in senior positions in the Bahujan Samaj Party.
His son Bhishma Shanker Tiwari, was Member of Parliament, Sant Kabir Nagar seat west of Gorakhpur.
Another son, Vinay Shankar Tiwari, stood from Gorakhpur but lost to Yogi Adityanath by a margin of 2,22,000 votes. He also lost a runoff election from Ballia in 2007 by 130,000 votes. He is the current MLA from Chillupar.
Nephew Ganesh Shankar Pandey was a state legislator from Maharajganj. In 2010 he won the MLC election for the fourth consecutive time, and was the speaker of the legislative council.
He was succeeded by Rajesh Tripathi. After that Vinay Shankar Tiwari won again from the Chillupar constituency in the 17th Legislative Assembly of Gorakhpur.
His daughter Kamini Dube is a film producer and had produced the film Rashtraputra along with The Bombay Talkies Studios.