Ankur Raj Tiwari is an Indian politician and a member of the

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, also known as Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, is the lower house of Bicameralism, bicameral legislature of the Indian state Uttar Pradesh. There are 403 seats in the house. Member of the Legislative Assembl ...

representing

Khalilabad (Assembly constituency) Khalilabad is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Khalilabad in the Sant Kabir Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Khalilabad is one of five assembly constituencies in the Sant Kabir Nagar Lok Sabh ...

Sant Kabir Nagar district Sant Kabir Nagar district is one of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh States and territories of India, state in northern India. Khalilabad, India, Khalilabad is the district headquarters. Sant Kabir Nagar district is a part of Basti division. Th ...

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

Early life and political career

Ankur Raj Tiwari was born in a Brahmin family on 23 September 1991 in

Sant Kabir Nagar Sant Kabir Nagar district is one of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. Khalilabad is the district headquarters. Sant Kabir Nagar district is a part of Basti division. The total area of Sant Kabir Nagar district is . Eco ...

(then a part of Basti),

. His father is Uday Raj Tiwari. In October 2021, Tiwari was granted a membership of

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

by BJP Uttar Pradesh state president

Swatantra Dev Singh Swatantra Dev Singh (born 13 February 1964) is an Indian politician and currently he is cabinet minister in the Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of Uttar Pradesh. He got an opportunity to represent the Bundelkhand region in the Yogi governme ...

, marking his entry into active politics. He was announced as the BJP candidate in the

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in Elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh from 2022 elections in India, 10 February to 7 March 2022 in seven phases to elect all List of constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, 403 m ...

from Khalilabad constituency in Sant Kabir Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh. He won the polls defeating

Digvijay Narayan Chaubey Digvijay Narayan Chaubey (also known as Jay Chaubey) is an Indian politician and a member of 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Khalilabad (Assembly constituency) in Sant Kabir Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, ...

of the

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; ) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India. It was founded on 4 October 1992 by former Janata Dal politician Mulayam Singh Yadav and is headquartered in New Delhi. It is the third-largest political party in ...

by a margin of 12622 votes.

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* Living people Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2022–2027 1988 births Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh {{UttarPradesh-BJP-politician-stub