Manish Tewari - Revision history

MyronMccreary8: improved details after review and cleaned formatting

2026-01-31T15:50:32Z

improved details after review and cleaned formatting

->SdkbBot: /* top */Removed overlinked country wikilink and general fixes (task 2)

2022-01-04T09:32:07Z

top: Removed overlinked country wikilink and general fixes (task 2)

← Older revision		Revision as of 15:02, 4 January 2022
Line 41:		Line 41:
	\| spouse = Naznin Shifa Tewari		\| spouse = Naznin Shifa Tewari
	}}		}}
	'''Manish Tewari''' (born 8 December 1965) is an ~~[[India]]n~~ lawyer and politician. He is a member of the [[Indian National Congress]] and represents [[Anandpur Sahib (Lok Sabha constituency)\|Anandpur Sahib]] in the [[17th Lok Sabha]]. He was the [[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)\|Minister of Information and Broadcasting]] from 2012 to 2014 and a [[Member of parliament (India)\|Member of Parliament]] from [[Ludhiana (Lok Sabha constituency)\|Ludhiana]] from 2009 to 2014.		'''Manish Tewari''' (born 8 December 1965) is an Indian lawyer and politician. He is a member of the [[Indian National Congress]] and represents [[Anandpur Sahib (Lok Sabha constituency)\|Anandpur Sahib]] in the [[17th Lok Sabha]]. He was the [[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)\|Minister of Information and Broadcasting]] from 2012 to 2014 and a [[Member of parliament (India)\|Member of Parliament]] from [[Ludhiana (Lok Sabha constituency)\|Ludhiana]] from 2009 to 2014.

	==Personal life==		==Personal life==
Line 50:		Line 50:
	==Career==		==Career==
	[[File:Manish Tewari addressing a Press Conference on ‘Digitization and related issues’, in New Delhi. The Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Shri Uday Kumar Varma and the Principal Director General (M&C) (1).jpg\|left\|thumb\|Manish Tewari addressing a Press Conference on ‘Digitization and related issues’, in New Delhi.]]		[[File:Manish Tewari addressing a Press Conference on ‘Digitization and related issues’, in New Delhi. The Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Shri Uday Kumar Varma and the Principal Director General (M&C) (1).jpg\|left\|thumb\|Manish Tewari addressing a Press Conference on ‘Digitization and related issues’, in New Delhi.]]
	Tewari was the president of [[National Students' Union of India\|National Students Union of India]] from 1988-1993<ref>{{cite web \|title=Tewari, Shri Manish \|url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=4430 \|website=Parliament of India \|access-date=24 February 2020}}</ref> and Indian Youth Congress(I) from 1998 to 2000. He lost the [[2004 Indian general election\|2004 Lok sabha elections]] but successfully contested the [[2004 Indian general election\|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.		Tewari was the president of [[National Students' Union of India\|National Students Union of India]] from 1988 to 1993<ref>{{cite web \|title=Tewari, Shri Manish \|url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=4430 \|website=Parliament of India \|access-date=24 February 2020}}</ref> and Indian Youth Congress(I) from 1998 to 2000. He lost the [[2004 Indian general election\|2004 Lok sabha elections]] but successfully contested the [[2004 Indian general election\|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.<ref name=Intel>{{cite news\|title=Indian spy agencies to come under parliament oversight? \|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/indian-spy-agencies-to-come-under-parliament-oversight/articleshow/9601416.cms \|access-date=20 April 2012 \|newspaper=The Economic Times \|date=14 August 2011 \|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/674KI9B9H?url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/indian-spy-agencies-to-come-under-parliament-oversight/articleshow/9601416.cms \|archive-date=20 April 2012 \|url-status=dead }}</ref> While he was scheduled to contest polls from his constituency Ludhiana, in March 2014 he was admitted to hospital for heart ailment.<ref>http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/manish-tewari-unlikely-to-contest-lok-sabha-polls/</ref> 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.<ref>http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/manish-tewari-not-to-contest-lok-sabha-polls/</ref>		As a member of parliament he has been active in drafting a Private member's Bill to bring the intelligence agencies under parliamentary oversight.<ref name=Intel>{{cite news\|title=Indian spy agencies to come under parliament oversight? \|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/indian-spy-agencies-to-come-under-parliament-oversight/articleshow/9601416.cms \|access-date=20 April 2012 \|newspaper=The Economic Times \|date=14 August 2011 \|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/674KI9B9H?url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/indian-spy-agencies-to-come-under-parliament-oversight/articleshow/9601416.cms \|archive-date=20 April 2012 \|url-status=dead }}</ref> While he was scheduled to contest polls from his constituency Ludhiana, in March 2014 he was admitted to hospital for heart ailment.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/manish-tewari-unlikely-to-contest-lok-sabha-polls/\|title = Manish Tewari unlikely to contest Lok Sabha polls\|date = 16 March 2014}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/manish-tewari-not-to-contest-lok-sabha-polls/\|title=Manish Tewari not to contest Lok Sabha polls\|date=25 March 2014}}</ref>

			Manish Tewari was a speaker at Bridge India's webinar on "India's foreign policy: Taking stock at the end of Year One"<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Bridge India's webinar series\|url=https://www.bridgeindia.org.uk/event/our-covid-19-webinar-series/\|access-date=2021-11-02\|website=Bridge India\|language=en-GB}}</ref>
	[[File:The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Information & Broadcasting, Shri Manish Tewari addressing the gathering, at Mullanpur, Distt. Ludhiana of Punjab on October 23, 2013.jpg\|thumb\|Manish Tewari addressing the gathering, at Mullanpur, District. Ludhiana of Punjab on 23 October 2013]]		[[File:The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Information & Broadcasting, Shri Manish Tewari addressing the gathering, at Mullanpur, Distt. Ludhiana of Punjab on October 23, 2013.jpg\|thumb\|Manish Tewari addressing the gathering, at Mullanpur, District. Ludhiana of Punjab on 23 October 2013]]

imported>Tom.Reding: +{{Authority control}} (3 IDs from Wikidata), WP:GenFixes on

2021-03-22T21:42:41Z

+{{Authority control}} (3 IDs from Wikidata), WP:GenFixes on

New page

{{Short description|Indian politician}}

{{EngvarB|date=September 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Manish Tewari
| image = Manish Tewari 2014.jpg
| image size =
| caption = Tewari in 2014
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1965|12|08}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Manish Tewari Biography|url=http://www.nriinternet.com/NRIcongressparty/Indian_Leaders/A_Z/T/Manish_Tewari/BIO/index.htm|publisher=NRIInternet.com|access-date=4 January 2013}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Ludhiana]], [[East Punjab|Punjab]], [[India]]
| residence = [[New Delhi]], [[India]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| office2 = [[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)|Minister of Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge)]]
| predecessor2 = [[Ambika Soni]]
| successor2 =[[Prakash Javdekar]]
| primeminister2 = [[Manmohan Singh]]
| term_start2 = 28 October 2012
| term_end2 = 26 May 2014
| office=[[Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]
| constituency =[[Anandpur Sahib (Lok Sabha constituency)|Anandpur Sahib]]
| term_start=23 May 2019
| predecessor=[[Prem Singh Chandumajra]]
| constituency1 = [[Ludhiana (Lok Sabha constituency)|Ludhiana]]
| term_start1 = 2009
| term_end1 = 2014
| predecessor1 = [[Sharanjit Singh Dhillon]]
| successor1 = [[Ravneet Singh Bittu]]
| office3 = President of [[Indian Youth Congress]]
| term_start3 = 1998
| term_end3 = 2003
| predecessor3 = Satyajit D. Gaekwad
| successor3 = [[Randeep Surjewala]]
| office4 = President of [[National Students Union of India]]
| term_start4 = 1988
| term_end4 = 1993
| predecessor4 = [[Mukul Wasnik]]
| successor4 = Saleem Ahmad
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]
| spouse = Naznin Shifa Tewari
}}
'''Manish Tewari''' (born 8 December 1965) is an [[India]]n lawyer and politician. He is a member of the [[Indian National Congress]] and represents [[Anandpur Sahib (Lok Sabha constituency)|Anandpur Sahib]] in the [[17th Lok Sabha]]. He was the [[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)|Minister of Information and Broadcasting]] from 2012 to 2014 and a [[Member of parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]] from [[Ludhiana (Lok Sabha constituency)|Ludhiana]] from 2009 to 2014.

==Personal life==
Manish Tewari was born on 8 December 1965<ref name="goi">{{cite web|url=https://archive.india.gov.in/govt/loksabhampbiodata.php?mpcode=4430|title=Detailed profile: Shri Manish Tewari|publisher=[[Government of India]]|access-date=16 October 2019}}</ref> [[Ludhiana]], [[Punjab]] to [[V.N. Tiwari]], an author of [[Punjabi language]] and professor at the Panjab University; and [[Amrit Tewari]] was 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 Sector 24, Chandigarh during a morning walk, a few months before [[Operation Blue Star]]. His mother died in 2018 following a cardiac arrest.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Singh |first1=Robin |title=Prof Amrit Tewari, former PGI Dean, passes away at 80 |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/prof-amrit-tewari-former-pgi-dean-passes-away-at-80-528752 |access-date=24 February 2020 |date=15 January 2018}}</ref> 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]].<ref name="goi"/> During his time at the Panjab University, he led the sports teams in [[swimming]] and [[water polo]].<ref name="goi"/> Tewari married Naznin Shifa, a [[Parsi]] in March 1996 and now resides in [[Lodhi Gardens]], [[New Delhi]]. The couple has a daughter, Ineka Tewari.<ref name="goi"/>

==Career==
[[File:Manish Tewari addressing a Press Conference on ‘Digitization and related issues’, in New Delhi. The Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Shri Uday Kumar Varma and the Principal Director General (M&C) (1).jpg|left|thumb|Manish Tewari addressing a Press Conference on ‘Digitization and related issues’, in New Delhi.]]
Tewari was the president of [[National Students' Union of India|National Students Union of India]] from 1988-1993<ref>{{cite web |title=Tewari, Shri Manish |url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=4430 |website=Parliament of India |access-date=24 February 2020}}</ref> and Indian Youth Congress(I) from 1998 to 2000. He lost the [[2004 Indian general election|2004 Lok sabha elections]] but successfully contested the [[2004 Indian general election|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.<ref name=Intel>{{cite news|title=Indian spy agencies to come under parliament oversight? |url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/indian-spy-agencies-to-come-under-parliament-oversight/articleshow/9601416.cms |access-date=20 April 2012 |newspaper=The Economic Times |date=14 August 2011 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/674KI9B9H?url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/indian-spy-agencies-to-come-under-parliament-oversight/articleshow/9601416.cms |archive-date=20 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> While he was scheduled to contest polls from his constituency Ludhiana, in March 2014 he was admitted to hospital for heart ailment.<ref>http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/manish-tewari-unlikely-to-contest-lok-sabha-polls/</ref> 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.<ref>http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/manish-tewari-not-to-contest-lok-sabha-polls/</ref>
[[File:The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Information & Broadcasting, Shri Manish Tewari addressing the gathering, at Mullanpur, Distt. Ludhiana of Punjab on October 23, 2013.jpg|thumb|Manish Tewari addressing the gathering, at Mullanpur, District. Ludhiana of Punjab on 23 October 2013]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091005000723/http://manishtewari.info/ www.manishtewari.info]
* {{Twitter}}
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=218JtyDtgTw HT Leadership Summit Discussion featuring Manish Tewari and Mahua Moitra]

{{Cabinet of Manmohan Singh}}
{{17th LS members from Punjab}}
{{Ministers of Information and Broadcasting}}
{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tewari, Manish}}
[[Category:Indian Youth Congress Presidents]]
[[Category:15th Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians]]
[[Category:People from Punjab, India]]
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Punjab, India]]
[[Category:Union ministers of state of India with independent charge]]
[[Category:Ministers for Information and Broadcasting of India]]
[[Category:1965 births]]
[[Category:People from Ludhiana district]]
[[Category:17th Lok Sabha members]]