Tika Ram Paliwal


Tika Ram Paliwal was an Indian politician, who served as the Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 3 March 1952 to 31 October 1952.
Paliwal was born at Mandawar village in the present-day Mahuwa tehsil of dausa district. He was a prominent Indian independence activist. He was a minister in Jai Narayan Vyas government form 26 April 1951 to 2 March 1952. He became the chief Minister of first democratically elected Rajasthan Legislative Assembly as Jai Narayan Vyas lost in the elections. Later Jai Narayan Vyas got elected in by-election from Kishangarh and again took over the post on 1 November 1952. So Tika Ram Paliwal resigned from the Cabinet for a short period and re-joined it.
He was MLA from Mahuwa twice in 1952 and 1957. In 1962, he was elected from the Hindaun Lok Sabha constituency as independent candidate.