| Indra Pratap Tiwari | |
| Office1: | Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
| Constituency1: | Goshainganj |
| Term Start1: | March 2017 |
| Term End1: | December 2021 |
| Predecessor1: | Abhay Singh |
| Successor1: | Abhay Singh |
| Birth Date: | 27 October 1970 |
| Birth Place: | Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Nickname: | Khabbu Tiwari |
| Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party (2016-present) |
| Otherparty: | Bahujan Samaj Party (2012-2016), Samajwadi Party (till 2012) |
| Profession: | Agriculturalist, social worker |
Indra Pratap "Khabbu" Tiwari (born 27 October 1970) is an Indian politician and a former member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He had represented the Goshainganj constituency as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in the 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. He is a former member of Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party.
Tiwari was born to Krishan Gopal Tiwari on 27 October 1970 in the Faizabad city of Uttar Pradesh.[1] [2] He completed intermediate education from Bachhulal Inter College, Pura Bazar in 1989. Tiwari is an agriculturalist and social worker.[3] [1] He married Aarti Tiwari, a postgraduate from Gonda, on 31 May 2018.[4]
A strongman of state politics, Tiwari started off as a student leader. In 2007, he lost as a Samajwadi Party candidate.[5] In the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, contesting as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate from Goshainganj, Tiwari was defeated by Samajwadi Party's Abhay Singh.[6] [7]
Tiwari joined Bharatiya Janata Party in 2016, and went on to defeat rival Abhay Singh by a margin of 11,620 votes in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election for the Goshainganj seat.[4] [5] [6] In December 2021, Tiwari lost his membership to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly after being convicted and jailed in October that year in a fake marksheet case.[8] [9] In the following 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Tiwari's wife Aarti represented the party for the vacant seat, but lost to Abhay Singh by a margin of 13,079 votes.[7] [6]
In October 2021, Tiwari, along with two others, was convicted in a 29-year-old case filed in 1992 by the principal of Saket College for taking admission in B.Sc third-year based on fake marksheets, despite failing in the B.Sc second-year examination in 1990.[8] [9] He was removed from his position in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly and incarcerated.[8] [9] Tiwari was released on bail in September 2022.[9]