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Manish Tewari
Tewari in 2014
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 June 2024
Preceded by	Kirron Kher
Constituency	Chandigarh
In office 23 May 2019 – 4 June 2024
Preceded by	Prem Singh Chandumajra
Succeeded by	Malwinder Singh Kang
Constituency	Anandpur Sahib
In office 16 May 2009 – 18 May 2014
Preceded by	Sharanjit Singh Dhillon
Succeeded by	Ravneet Singh Bittu
Constituency	Ludhiana
Minister of Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge)
In office 28 October 2012 – 26 May 2014
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	Ambika Soni
Succeeded by	Prakash Javdekar
President of Indian Youth Congress
In office 1998–2003
Preceded by	Satyajit D. Gaekwad
Succeeded by	Randeep Surjewala
President of National Students Union of India
In office 1986–1993
Preceded by	Mukul Wasnik
Succeeded by	Saleem Ahmad
Personal details
Born	(1965-12-08) 8 December 1965 (age 59) Chandigarh, India
Political party	Indian National Congress
Spouse	Naznin Shifa Tewari
Residence(s)	Chandigarh, India
Education	Bachelor of Laws
Alma mater	Delhi University
Occupation	Politician

Manish Tewari (born 8 December 1965) is an Indian lawyer and politician. He studied from St. John's High School, Chandigarh. He is a member of the Indian National Congress and represents Chandigarh in the current 18th Lok Sabha. He represented Anandpur Sahib in the 17th Lok Sabha. He was Minister of Information and Broadcasting from 2012 to 2014 and a Member of Parliament from Ludhiana from 2009 to 2014. He contested and won from Chandigarh in the 2024 Indian general election.

Personal life

Manish Tewari was born on 8 December 1965 in Chandigarh, India to Hindu Brahmin father V.N. Tiwari, an author of Punjabi language and professor at the Panjab University; and Jat Sikh mother Amrit Tewari, a dentist who worked as Professor and Head, Oral Health Sciences Center, and Dean at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research. His father was killed by militants in 1984 at his house no. 84 Sector 24, Chandigarh. This happened early morning and was a few months before Operation Blue Star. His mother died in 2018 following a cardiac arrest. Tewari's maternal grandfather, Sardar Tirath Singh was a lawyer and a minister in Congress' government in the state of Punjab.

Tewari attained a Bachelor's of Arts degree from Panjab University, Chandigarh and later a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Delhi. During his time at the Panjab University, he led the sports teams in swimming and water polo. Tewari married Naznin Shifa, a Parsi in March 1996 and now resides in Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi. The couple has a daughter, Ineka Tewari.

Career

Tewari was the president of National Students Union of India from 1988 to 1993 and Indian Youth Congress(I) from 1998 to 2000. He lost the 2004 Lok sabha elections but successfully contested the 2009 Lok Sabha elections by defeating Shiromani Akali Dal's candidate Gurcharan Singh Galib by a margin of over 100,000 votes. He was Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting. Tewari, an advocate by profession, presently practices in the Supreme Court of India and the High Courts of Delhi as well as Punjab and Haryana.

As a member of parliament he has been active in drafting a Private member's Bill to bring the intelligence agencies under parliamentary oversight. While he was scheduled to contest polls from his constituency Ludhiana, in March 2014 he was admitted to hospital for heart ailment. Days later he expressed his unwillingness to contest parliamentary elections owing to his ill health. He has been replaced by Ravneet Singh Bittu, the grandson of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.

Manish Tewari was a speaker at Bridge India's webinar on "India's foreign policy: Taking stock at the end of Year One". In 2022, it was reported that Tewari may be a candidate in the 2022 Indian National Congress presidential election.

References

1. "Manish Tewari Biography". NRIInternet.com. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
2. Sethi, Chitleen K. (4 June 2024). "Congress's Manish Tewari wrests Chandigarh from BJP after 10 yrs, Sanjay Tandon loses by slim margin". ThePrint. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
3. The Economic Times (6 June 2024). "Bullish Wins & Bearish Losses: Here are the key contests and results of 2024 Lok Sabha polls". Archived from the original on 27 July 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
4. ^ "Detailed profile: Shri Manish Tewari". Government of India. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
5. @ManishTewari (21 November 2018). "Actually Prabhu ji @PrabhuChawla "I am half a Jat Sikh too - from my mother's side & proud of the Hindu- Sikh syncretism that is my DNA. My Late Father called it Punjabiyat. While I was growing up religion, caste & the rest of it was alien to me. I discovered that I was a Hindu1/2"" (Tweet). Retrieved 14 September 2024 – via Twitter.
6. ^ Singh, Robin (15 January 2018). "Prof Amrit Tewari, former PGI Dean, passes away at 80". The Tribune. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
7. "Tewari, Shri Manish". Parliament of India. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
8. "Indian spy agencies to come under parliament oversight?". The Economic Times. 14 August 2011. Archived from the original on 25 May 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
9. "Manish Tewari unlikely to contest Lok Sabha polls". 16 March 2014.
10. "Manish Tewari not to contest Lok Sabha polls". 25 March 2014.
11. "Bridge India's webinar series". Bridge India. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
12. "Kamal Nath, Manish Tewari may contest in Congress chief polls". www.telegraphindia.com. 22 September 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2022.

External links

• www.manishtewari.info
• Manish Tewari on Twitter
• HT Leadership Summit Discussion featuring Manish Tewari and Mahua Moitra

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