Indra Pratap Tiwari

Indra Pratap "Khabbu" Tiwari (born 27 October 1970) is an Indian politician and a former member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

[2][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.

[6][3][2] 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][2] 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.