Narayan Dutt Tiwari, an Indian politician, was the Governor of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh during 2007-2009. He was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for 3 times and the chief Minister of Uttarakhand during 2002-2007. He is a member of Indian National Congress. Narayan Dutt Tiwari was also appointed as the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, from 2007, but he had to resign after being entangled in a controversy in 2009.

Early Life of Narayan Dutt Tiwari
Narayan Dutt Tiwari was born on 18th October 1925 to father Poorn Anand Tiwari, in the village of Baluti, in Nainital. He completed his education from several schools like C.R.S.T. High School, E.M. High School and M.B. School. At the age of 17, for taking part in the freedom movement, Tiwari was jailed, along with his father in the year 1942. He took admission in Allahabad University after returning from jail in the year 1944. Narayan Dutt Tiwari got the first division in MA (Political Science) and also topped the university. He again, thereafter, secured a first division in the LLB examination.

Career of Narayan Dutt Tiwari
Narayan Dutt Tiwari started his career in politics during his student days and he was selected as the President of the Allahabad University Students Union. Later, he joined the Congress Socialist party. He became Secretary in the All India Students Congress, from 1945-1949. He was elected MLA for the first time in the year 1952, when elections were first held in Independent India, from Nainital constituency on the Praja Samajwadi Party ticket.


In the 1957 elections, Tiwari was chosen as the leader of the opposition. He was appointed President of the UP Assembly Public Accounts Committee in 1960. In 1962, he was selected the Secretary of the State Co-operative Federation and Director, Land Development Bank. He was assigned the Vice-President of the Estimates Parishad. In the post he remained for 4 years starting from 1965.

Narayan Dutt Tiwari was also appointed as the All India Coordinator of the National Youth Congress in the year 1965. He established the Jawahar Lal Youth Centre in 1967 and in 1968 he was nominated as the leader of the delegation to the World Youth Assembly, which was held in Japan. For the first time, in 1965 he was elected an MLA on the Congress ticket from the Kashipur constituency. Again in 1970, he was appointed the Minister for Finance and Parliamentary Affairs in the Chaudhary Charan Singh government. Kamlapati Tripathi, thereafter, became the Chief Minister and appointed Tiwari as the Minister with multiple portfolios of Finance, Industry, Irrigation, Excise, Electricity and Labour and Sugarcane development.

Tiwari was re-elected in 1974, from the Kashipur constituency and in 1975; again he was handed with the portfolios of Finance, Industry, Sugar, Sugarcane Development, Excise and Labour, as Cabinet Minister. Under his Chief Minister ship Uttar Pradesh developed immensely in the road and bridge network and the network expanded significantly.

In September 1985, Narayan Dutt Tiwari was appointed the Central Cabinet as the Industry Minister. He was also given the additional portfolio in 1986 as Petroleum Minister. Following this in October 1986, he was allotted Foreign Minister. He replaced Vishwanath Pratap Singh, in April 1987, as leader of the Congress in the Rajya Sabha. He was appointed in July 1987, as Finance and Commerce Minister in the Central Cabinet. In 1996 and again in 1999, Narayan Dutt Tiwari was elected as MP from the Nainital constituency on the Congress ticket and merged the Tiwari Congress with the parent body. In the early 1990s, he was a competitor to be the Prime Minister of India. He later served as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, which was carved out of Uttar Pradesh, from 2002 through 2007.

On August 19, 2007, Tiwari was appointed as the Governor of Andhra Pradesh. But in the year 2009, he became involved in a sex scandal and was compelled by the general public to resign.