Former UP and Uttarakhand CM ND Tiwari dies on 93rd birthday

Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, October 18

Three-time former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and an ex-Chief Minister of Uttarakhand ND Tiwari died on his 93rd birthday in the capital on Thursday.

Tiwari breathed his last at the Emergency in Max Saket where he was shifted a while ago following multi-organ failure.

The death brings an end to a long and distinguished political career of Tiwari who joined the BJP last year after severing five decade long ties with the Congress party.

Tiwari’s political career nosedived post 2009 as he got embroiled in a sex scandal while being the sitting Governor of Andhra Pradesh.

The former Congressman also had to face the ignominy of witnessing his biological son Rohit Shekhar take him to court to prove his parentage.

After long years of unsuccessful struggle, Tiwari acknowledged Shekhar was his son from Ujwala Sharma who spent a lonesome life trying to get her due in the veteran leader’s life.

It was only in 2014 that Tiwari acknowledged Ujwala Sharma and married her.

Soon after he declared Rohit Shekhar his political heir. This was on the eve of 2014 Lok Sabha elections.