Sriniwas Tiwari

Shriyut Sriniwas Tiwari was a politician from Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India. He had a long career in Madhya Pradesh state politics. He was a six-time member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. For most of his political career, he was a member of the Indian National Congress, and had stints in Socialist Party and Samyukta Socialist Party in his younger days. He was Madhya Pradesh assembly speaker from 1993 to 2003.
He also served as a member of the Vindhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly between 1952 and 1956, before it was merged into Madhya Pradesh. He was bitterly opposed to the merger and advocated the separation of the Vindhya Pradesh region from Madhya Pradesh during his political career. He was known as the White Tiger of Madhya Pradesh. He is considered an influential politician in Madhya Pradesh and is often identified with the political group led by Narayan Prasad Shukla during a significant phase of state politics.
He lost the election from Sirmour in the 2008 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.

Personal life

Sriniwas Tiwari was born on 17 September 1926 in Shahpur, a village in the Rewa princely state, to Mangaldeen Tiwari and Kaushalya Devi. He was a native of Tiuni, a village in Rewa district. Tiwari was a freedom fighter and a lawyer who graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Hindi and an LL.B. from Durbar College, Rewa.
On 21 May 1937, he married Shravan Kumari, the daughter of Ramniranjan Mishra of Jhiria village in Satna district. He had two sons, Arun Tiwari and Sundar Lal Tiwari. Sundar Lal Tiwari was also an Indian National Congress politician who served as MP and MLA in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
Tiwari died on 19 January 2018, aged 91.