Shri Narayan Dutt Tiwari, is the Leader of the House and  the Ist elected Chief Minister of Uttaranchal State.

Sh.Tiwari was born in village Baluti of district Nainital in the year 1925. At the young age of 17,   he was jailed, along with his father, Poornanand Tiwari, for taking part in the freedom movement in the year 1942. After his release from jail in the year 1944, he took admission in Allahabad University. He not only secured first division in MA (Political Science) but also topped the university. Thereafter, he again secured a first division in the LLB examination.

His initiation into politics began during his student days and he was elected President of the Allahabad University Students Union. Later, with Pt. Nehru's blessings, he joined the Congress Socialist party. In the year 1952, when elections were first held in Independent India, he was elected MLA from Nainital constituency on the Praja Samajwadi Party ticket.

In the year 1954 he was married to Dr. Sushila Selwal. He was again elected from the Nainital legislative constituency in the 1957 elections and was chosen as the leader of the opposition. In 1960, he was made President of the UP Assembly Public Accounts Committee. In 1962 he was elected the Secretary of the State Co-operative Federation and Director, Land Development Bank. He was appointed the Vice-President of the Estimates Parishad at which post he remained for four years starting from 1965.

It was in the year 1963 that he joined the Congress at the behest of renowned socialist Gainda Singh. In the year 1965 he was also appointed as the All India Coordinator of the National Youth Congress. In 1967 he established the Jawahar Lal Youth Centre and in 1968 he was selected as the leader of the delegation to the World Youth Assembly held in Japan.
It was in 1965 that, for the first time, he was elected an MLA on the Congress ticket from the Kashipur constituency. The same year, again for the first time, he was appointed Minister for Labour, Planning and Panchayati Raj under the Chief Ministership of C.B. Gupta but resigned after 8 months along with 8 other ministers.

In 1970, he was again appointed the Minister for Finance and Parliamentary Affairs Minister in the Choudhary Charan Singh government. But soon after, the Charan Singh Ministry fell. Thereafter, when Kamlapati Tripathi became the Chief Minister, Tiwari was again appointed Minister with multiple portfolios of Finance, Industry, Irrigation, Excise, Electricity and Labour and Sugarcane development.

In 1974, he was re-elected from the Kashipur constituency and in 1975, with Bahuguna as the Chief Minister, he was again entrusted with the portfolios of  Finance, Industry, Sugar, Sugarcane Development, Excise and Labour, as Cabinet Minister.

It was in the months of January 1976 that he first became Chief Minister of UP and remained so till 1977. In the elections held after the emergency the Congress suffered a crushing defeat and his government was dismissed. But in the 1977 elections, despite the strong Janata Party wave, he was again elected on the Congress ticket from the Kashipur constituency and was elected the leader of the opposition as also the leader of the Congress legislative party in the UP assembly.

In 1980, he was elected as MP from the Nainital constituency. He won with a record margin of over a lakh votes. In the same year, he was appointed as Minister for Planning in the Central Cabinet. He was also appointed as the Vice-Chairman of the Planning Commission. In 1981 he was appointed as the Industries Minister. Later, he was entrusted with the portfolio of Steel and Mines.

He became the Chief Minister of UP for the second time in 1984. He was elected from the Kashipur Assembly Constituency in 1985. On March 1985 he became the Chief Minister of UP for the third time. But in September he joined the central cabinet as the Industries Minister. In 1986 he was also given the additional portfolio as Petroleum Minister.

Following this he was appointed Foreign Minister in October 1986. In April 1987 he replaced Vishwanath Pratap Singh as leader of the Congress in the Rajya Sabha. In July 1987, he was appointed as Finance and Commerce Minister in the Central Cabinet.

In the year, 1987 he was awarded a honorary D. Lit. Degree by the Kashi Vidyapith University. And in 1988 he became the Chief Minister of UP for the fourth time. He was again elected from the Kashipur Assembly constituency in the elections of 1989. The same year he was elected the leader of the Congress legislature party.

In 1991 he was again elected from the same constituency and in 1994 he was made the President of the UP Congress.

In 1995, after the formation of the Tiwari Congress he became its President. He was elected as MP from the Nainital constituency in 1996 and again in 1999 on the Congress ticket, having merged the Tiwari Congress with the parent body.