Pramod Tiwari

Pramod Kumar Tiwari (born 16 July 1952) is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress party. He is currently serving as Deputy Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, from Rajasthan Rajya Sabha Constituency. He is a nine-time Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Rampur Khas and Former Cabinet Minister in Government of Uttar Pradesh.

Political career
Pramod Kumar Tiwari was chosen as a member of Uttar Pradesh Assembly for the first time in the 1980s. He regularly won the Rampur Khas seat. He was the Cabinet Minister in Government of Uttar Pradesh from 1984 to 1991. Tiwari has won nine times in a row.

In 2007 election, Tiwari defeated Kunwar Viggyat Singh of the Samajwadi Party (SP) by a huge margin and in 2012 election, he defeated Hira Madi Patel of Bahujan Samajwadi Party by 31,544 votes.

On 6 June 2012, the Congress removed him as the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader and replaced him with Pradeep Mathur, a three-term MLA from Mathura.

Pramod Tiwari was chosen as a member of U.P. Assembly for the first time in the 1980 and won record nine times in a row from Rampur Khas seat in Pratapgarh district. He was the minister of U.P. from 1984 to 1989. He was also the Congress legislature party leader for a record time.

He was elected as a Member of Rajya Sabha in 2013 by-elections for the vacant seat due to disqualification of sitting member Rasheed Masood and is a 2 time senior member of Rajya Sabha, served his term till 11th April,2018 and was again elected as Member of Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan in 2022.

Record
Pramod Tiwari entered Guinness Book of World Records for winning Rampur Khas assembly seat for the 9th time in a row.