Ashok Tanwar (born 12 February 1976) is an Indian politician, former President of

Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (or Haryana PCC) is the unit of the Indian National Congress, working in the state of Haryana. Its head office is situated at Chandigarh. Senior leader and four times MLA Mr Udai Bhan is the present chief of t ...

, Member of

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from

Sirsa Sirsa is a city and a municipal council in Sirsa district in the westernmost region of the Indian state of Haryana, bordering Punjab and Rajasthan. It is located in Thar desert. It is located 250 kilometres north-west of New Delhi and 260 kilome ...

and Secretary,

All India Congress Committee The All India Congress Committee (AICC) is the presidium or the central decision-making assembly of the Indian National Congress. It is composed of members elected from state-level Pradesh Congress Committees and can have as many as a thousan ...

. He was also a former president of

Indian Youth Congress The Indian Youth Congress is the youth wing of the Indian National Congress party. The Indian Youth Congress was a department of the Indian National Congress from the period just after the Partition of India in 1947 until the late 1960s. While p ...

and

NSUI The National Students Union of India, the student wing of the Indian National Congress (INC or Congress), was established on 9 April 1971. The organisation was founded by Indira Gandhi after merging the Kerala Students Union and the West Benga ...

. He was the youngest person to become the president of

Early life

He was born in a

chamar Chamar is a Dalit community classified as a Scheduled Caste under modern India's system of affirmative action. Historically subject to untouchability, they were traditionally outside the Hindu ritual ranking system of castes known as varna. ...

caste to a family of

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Rift between Bhupinder Hooda and Ashok Tanwar worries Haryana Congress
newindianexpress.com, 22 January 2018. in Chimni,

Jhajjar district Jhajjar district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana state in northern India. Carved out of Rohtak district on 15 July 1997 and with its headquarters in Jhajjar, it lies from Delhi and had developed into an important industrial center. Othe ...

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ar ...

to Dilbag Singh and Krishna Rathi. He did his BA from the

Kakatiya University Kakatiya University is a public university located in Hanmakonda, Warangal in the Indian state of Telangana. It was most recently accredited with an "A" Grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council of India on 12 September 2017. ...

, Warangal. He went to

Jawaharlal Nehru University Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a public major research university located in New Delhi, India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. The university is known for leading faculties and r ...

's centre for Historical studies and completed his M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. (Medieval Indian History).

Political career

Tanwar started his career as an activist of the

in JNU.

Youth politics

Tanwar rose to prominence when he fought the election for the president of student union of JNU. He became NSUI's secretary in 1999 and its president in 2003. Under his leadership, the NSUI won two elections in the Delhi University Students' Union (

DUSU Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) ...

) since he took over in 2003 and improved its performance in the Left dominated JNU. During Ashok Tanwar's term as president, the

tried to strengthen its network at block, district and state level through workshops, seminars, street plays and social work related to the public issues.

Lok Sabha elections

In 2009 he won the Lok Sabha elections from Sirsa in Haryana as a Congress party's candidate with a margin of 35499 votes. However he lost the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as Congress Party's candidate to Charanjeet Singh Rori of

Indian National Lok Dal Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is a political party in India, in the state of Haryana. INLD was founded in October 1996 as Haryana Lok Dal (Rashtriya) by Choudhary Devi Lal, who served as Deputy Prime Minister of India in the V.P. Singh's Cabin ...

President of Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee

He became the president of Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee on 14 February 2014. He was succeeded by

Selja Kumari Selja Kumari (born 24 September 1962) is an Indian politician and former parliamentarian. A member of the Indian National Congress, she has been the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment and Tourism in the Government of India during Manmo ...

as party president on 4 September 2019. He quit the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

on 5 October 2019.

Personal life

In June 2005, Ashok Tanwar married Avantika Maken, daughter of

Lalit Maken Lalit Maken was a Member of parliament, a political leader of Indian National Congress and a labour union leader. Maken was the son-in-law of late President of India, Shankar Dayal Sharma. In the year of 1984, he was elected to the Lok Sabha as ...

and maternal granddaughter of former

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, Dr.

Shankar Dayal Sharma Shankar Dayal Sharma (; 19 August 1918 – 26 December 1999) was an Indian lawyer and politician from the state of Madhya Pradesh who served as the ninth President of India, from 1992 to 1997. Born in Bhopal, Sharma studied at Agra, Allahaba ...

. They have three children, two sons and one daughter, Anirudh, Adikarta and Abhistada.

References

External links

Ashok Tanwar Official PageIndian Youth CongressOfficial biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tanwar, Ashok Living people Indian National Congress politicians People from Jhajjar Jawaharlal Nehru University alumni People from Delhi Indian Youth Congress Presidents India MPs 2009–2014 1976 births Lok Sabha members from Haryana Trinamool Congress politicians