Manoj Tiwari (Delhi politician)

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Manoj Tiwari
Tiwari campaigning in 2019
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office
16 May 2014
Preceded byJai Prakash Agarwal
ConstituencyNorth East Delhi, Delhi
President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Delhi
In office
30 November 2016 – 2 June 2020
PresidentAmit Shah
Preceded bySatish Upadhyay
Succeeded byAdesh Kumar Gupta
Personal details
Born
Manoj Kumar Tiwari[1]

(1971-02-01) 1 February 1971 (age 53)
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Other political
affiliations		Samajwadi Party (till 2011)
Spouses
Rani Tiwari
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(m. 1999; div. 2012)​
Surbhi Tiwari
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(m. 2020)​
Children3
Residence(s)New Delhi, Delhi, India
Alma materBanaras Hindu University (MPEd)[2]
Occupation
  • Actor
  • singer
  • director
  • television presenter
  • politician

Manoj Kumar Tiwari (born 1 February 1971) is an Indian politician, singer and actor serving as a Member of Parliament from North East Delhi. He contested the 2009 general election as a Samajwadi Party candidate from Gorakhpur Lok Sabha but lost to Yogi Adityanath. Again, he contested 2014 Indian general elections as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate and won. He was appointed as Delhi BJP president in 2016.[3] He was the head of the BJP organisation in Delhi when the party recorded a record victory in 2017 MCD elections.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference LSProfile was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Manoj Tiwari is new Delhi BJP chief". The Hindu. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Manoj Tiwari appointed chief of Delhi BJP". Hindustan Times. 30 November 2016.
  4. ^ "Delhi MCD Election 2017 Results". Elections.in. 26 May 2017.