UP ministers, including Mohammad Azam Khan, senior party leader Ram Gopal Yadav, and Assembly Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey were present at the cremation ceremony.
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav met the family of Tiwari in Basti earlier this morning.
Tiwari, 71, an eminent socialist leader from Basti district of eastern Uttar Pradesh who was recently re-elected to the Rajya Sabha, died yesterday in Delhi after suffering a heart attack.
Tiwari was associated with socialist movement and remained a close associate of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav from early days.
Ministers Balram Yadav and Awadhesh Prasad and local MLAs Tej Narain Pandey and Mitrasen Yadav were among those present during the cremation. PTI CORR