Shivanand Tiwari

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Shivanand Tiwari is 81 years old elected from Bihar as Rajyasabha member. He is a member of .

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Participated in 'Ghera Dalo Andolan' organised by the Samyukta Socialist Party in 1965 and jailed for the first time

braved brutal police lathi charge in the meeting held at Gandhi Maidan for violating Section 144 in protest of police firing in Patna and arrest of Dr. Lohia in 1965 and the Samyukta Socialist Party's demonstration on the occasion of Janvani Diwas in Delhi and black flag demonstration in Patna under 'Angrezi Hatao' agitation in 1970

arrested in connection with 'Kutch Andolan', Delhi and jailed four times during the movement in 1974

detained for 17 months and 18 days under the MISA during emergency and arrested during demonstration against the Press Bill and imprisoned for about one and a half month

suffered injuries during the meeting of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan held at Gandhi Maidan on the issue of reservation to the socially backward by Karpoori Thakur

National Vice-President, Yuva Janata, 1977

Vice-President, Bihar Citizen Council, 1991

Founder Co-ordinator, Samata Sangathan, Bangalore, 1980

Co-ordinator, Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha, Bihar, 1970

Member, (i) Rajya Samiti of Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha, (a youth wing of Samyukta Socialist Party), 1967, (ii) National Committee of Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha, 1971, and (iii) Steering Committee, Sangharsha Samiti during the movement launched by Jai Prakash Narayan in 1974