Narayan Datt Tiwari

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Narayan Datt Tiwari ( Hindi नारायण दत्त तिवारी ; born October 18, 1925 in Baluti, Nainital District , Uttarakhand ; † October 18, 2018 in Saket , Delhi ) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress , who was among other things three times Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh , Foreign Minister , Chief Minister of Uttarakhand and most recently Governor of Andhra Pradesh .

Life

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Minister

Tiwari was on January 21, 1976 as the successor of Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna and a temporary presidential rule ( President's rule ) by President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed for the first time Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He only held this office for three months until April 29, 1977, before the President's rule was reinstated .

In 1980 he was appointed to a Union government by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as the Union Minister of Planning for the first time and held this office until 1981. From 1980 to 1982 he was also Minister of Labor (Union Minister of Labor) . Subsequently, as part of a cabinet reshuffle, he took over the office of Minister of Industry (Union Minister of Industry) from 1981 to 1984 and was also Minister for Steel and Mines (Union Minister of Steel and Mines) in the government of Indira Gandhi between 1982 and 1984 .

After leaving the Union government, Tiwari was again Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on August 3, 1984 as the successor to Sripati Mishra . After a little more than a year in government, he was succeeded on September 24, 1985 by Bir Bahadur Singh as chief minister of this state .

Foreign Minister, Finance Minister and Governor

Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi appointed Tiwari on October 22, 1986 to succeed Fr Shiv Shankar as Union Minister of External Affairs . He held this office until a government reshuffle on July 25, 1987, when Prime Minister Gandhi took over this minister himself. He himself succeeded Rajiv Gandhi again as Minister of Finance (Union Minister of Finance) and was replaced by Shankarrao Bhaorao Chavan on June 25, 1988 after eleven months in office . At the same time he held the office of Minister of Commerce (Union Minister of Commerce) between 1987 and 1988 .

On June 25, 1988, Tiwari became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the third time, succeeding Bir Bahadur Singh. On December 5, 1989, he was followed by Mulayam Singh Yadav of the Samajwadi Janata Party , after the Indian National Congress had previously suffered a defeat in the elections to the legislative assembly (Vidhan Sabha) of the state.

In 1995, together with the former Union Minister, Arjun Singh , and some loyal supporters of Rajiv Gandhi, he led an internal party revolt, which led to the establishment of the Indian National Congress Indira, the so-called Congress-Tiwari - or Congress (T) - Faction ( All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) - AIIC (T)). However, after the 1996 Lok Sabha elections were defeated and the Indian National Congress lost 92 seats and only won 140 seats, and Congress-Tiwari only had four members, Singh and Tiwari returned to the Indian National Congress at the end of 1996 .

After the victory of the Congress party in the elections for the legislative assembly of Uttaranchal , he became the new Chief Minister of this new state on March 2, 2002, which was created in 2000 through a split from Uttar Pradesh. He became the successor of Bhagat Singh Koshiyari from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The office of chief minister of Uttaranchal, which was given its current name Uttarakhand on January 1, 2007, he held until his party's defeat by the BJP. He was followed on March 8, 2007 by Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri of the BJP.

India's first female president, Pratibha Patil , finally appointed Tiwari on August 22, 2007 to succeed Rameshwar Thakur as governor of Andhra Pradesh . On December 26, 2009, 84-year-old Tiwari officially resigned on health grounds after a local TV station showed a video showing the politician in bed with three young women. He was succeeded on December 27, 2009 by ESL Narasimhan .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Narayan Datt Tiwari passes away on his 93rd birthday , accessed October 18, 2018
  2. Former Governors of Sikkim ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rajbhavansikkim.gov.in
  3. India: Ministries (rulers.org)
  4. George IYPE: Sonia wants to ask Congress rebels to return. rediff.com, March 30, 1998, accessed December 23, 2014 .
  5. India: States after 1947 AL (rulers.org)