Lucknow, April 8 -- The rise and fall of Vinay Shankar Tiwari, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate for bank loan fraud and money laundering, spanned his behind the curtains involvement in Lucknow University students' politics to his stint as an MLA from Chillupar and his bid to carry forward the legacy of his father the late Hari Shankar Tiwari, a eastern UP strongman and six-time former MLA.

Vinay Shankar Tiwari took the plunge into electoral politics in 2008 by joining the BSP and contesting the Lok Sabha bypoll on the party ticket against Samajwadi Party candidate Neeraj Shekhar from Ballia but lost by over 1,31,286 votes.

In his second attempt in the 2009 general election, he contested on a BSP ticket against the then si...