Former UP and Uttarakhand CM Narayan Datt Tiwari passes away

Former Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand Chief Minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari passed away in New Delhi.

• He was 93-year-old. 
• He is the only Politician who has served as CM of two states.
• He was known as Vikas Purush and was instrumental in developing the industrial sector in Uttarakhand.

About Narayan Dutt Tiwari:

• He was born on October 18, 1925 in Baluti, United Provinces in then British India (now in Uttarakhand, India).
• He was a three-time CM of Uttar Pradesh and was the first elected CM of Uttarakhand as well.
• His first stint as UP CM was from January 1976 to April 1977 and then again from August 1984 to September 1985 and from June 1988 to December 1988.
• He was elected to Lok Sabha in 1980 and Rajya Sabha in 1985.
• He was also a Union minister and had held a variety of portfolios.
• He was Union Minister of External Affairs in late Rajiv Gandhi's cabinet and thereafter he became Minister for Finance and Commerce and held the ministry till June 1988.
• He was the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand from 2002 to 2007 (after Uttarakhand was carved out of UP in November 2000).
• He also had served as Governor of Andhra Pradesh from 2007 to 2009.
• He was first elected to UP Assembly on Praja Samajwadi Party ticket from Nainital in 1952 and 1957.
• He joined Congress in 1963 and got elected to UP Assembly from Kashipur in 1965.
• He was first president of Youth Congress in 1969.
• He had floated the All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) in 1995 along with Arjun Singh after he had left Congress.
• He had also won the Lok Sabha polls in 1996 and 1999.

Question:

Q. Which former Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand Chief Minister passed away in New Delhi?
a. Narayan Dutt Tiwari
b. Kalyan Singh
c. Ram Naik
d. None of the above