Kanwar Singh Tanwar

Kanwar Singh Tanwar is an Indian politician who is serving as Member of Parliament from Amroha constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party.

Early life
Tanwar was born to Hukum Chand Tanwar and hails from Fatehpur Village of Chhatarpur in Delhi. He studied till 8th standard in Govt. Boys School Fatehpur, New Delhi in 1973.

Political career
Tanwar was elected to the 16th Lok Sabha in May 2014. From 1 September 2014, until 2019, he held membership on the Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare and the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Tanwar served as a Permanent Special Invitee on the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, and Drinking Water and Sanitation, where he contributed to policy discussions and decision-making processes.

In May 2019 Lok Sabha election, Tanwar lost the Amroha seat to Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Kunwar Danish Ali by a margin of nearly 63,000 votes. Tanwar was polled 5,37,834 votes. In the 2024 Lok Sabha election, Tanwar regained the seat with 476,506 votes. He defeating Ali, an Indian National Congress candidate, by 28,670 votes.