N. D. Tiwari

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N. D. Tiwari
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
In office
25 June 1988 – 5 December 1989
Preceded byVir Bahadur Singh
Succeeded byMulayam Singh Yadav
In office
3 August 1984 – 24 September 1985
Preceded bySripati Mishra
Succeeded byVir Bahadur Singh
In office
21 January 1976 – 30 April 1977
Preceded byPresident's rule
Succeeded byPresident's rule
Personal details
Born
Narayan Datt Tiwari

(1925-10-18)18 October 1925
United Provinces, British India
Died18 October 2018(2018-10-18) (aged 93)
New Delhi, India
Political partyIndian National Congress (1963-1996 and 1998-2018)
Other political
affiliations		Praja Socialist Party (till 1963)
All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) (1996–1998)
Spouses
Sushila Tiwari
​
​
(m. 1953; died 1991)​
Ujjwala Tiwari
​
(m. 2013)​
Children1
Allahabad University
ReligionHinduism

Narayan Datt Tiwari (18 October 1925 – 18 October 2018) was an Indian politician who served as the 9th

Chief Minister of Uttarakhand from 2002 to 2007. He was first Indian Chief Minister who served for two states. He formerly in the Praja Socialist Party and later joined the Indian National Congress
.

He was a three-time

Governor of Andhra Pradesh
from 2007 until 2009, when he resigned due to health and personal issues reasons.

Early life and education

Narayan Datt Tiwari was born to a

Non-cooperation movement.[6][5] Tiwari received his education at various schools including, M.B. School, Haldwani, E.M. High School, Bareilly and C.R.S.T. High School, Nainital.[7]

His initiation into politics came early, when during the

Indian Independence movement
, he was arrested on 14 December 1942 for writing Anti-British leaflets opposing imperialist policies, and sent to Nainital jail, where his father was already lodged.
All India Student Congress from 1947 to 49.[7][9]

Career

Early career

In the first election in Uttar Pradesh after the independence for the

Nanital constituency and became an MLA for the first time on Praja Socialist Party ticket.[10] In 1957, he was elected from the Nainital legislative constituency, and became the leader of Opposition in the Assembly.[11]

In 1963, he joined the

Chaudhary Charan Singh Government (1979–1980).[13] In 1968, he established Jawaharlal Nehru National Youth Centre (JNNYC), a voluntary organisation.[14] He remained the first President of Indian Youth Congress from 1969 to 1971.[15]

Later positions

Tiwari was the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh three times: from January 1976 to April 1977, from August 1984 to September 1985 and from June 1988 to December 1988.

External Affairs Minister from October 1986 until July 1987, at which point he became Minister of Finance and Commerce.[7][18] He served in that position until June 1988, when he became chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the third time.[7]

He was an unsuccessful contender to be

Arjun Singh in 1995.[20] He joined back when Sonia Gandhi came at the helm of affairs of the party two years later, and after a devastating defeat of the party under Narasimha Rao during the general elections in 1996.[20] Tiwari was elected to the 11th Lok Sabha in 1996, and again to the 13th Lok Sabha in 1999.[16]

He later served as the

Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, which was carved out of Uttar Pradesh, from 2002 through 2007.[21] He resigned on 5 March 2006, citing his age and left office in March 2007 following setbacks from his party in the state elections.[21]

Narayan Datt Tiwari was appointed as the

Governor of Andhra Pradesh on 19 August 2007 and was sworn in on 22 August 2007.[22] Following a controversy over his involvement in a sex scandal, he resigned as the governor on 27 December 2009, citing "health grounds";[23] subsequently he relocated to Dehradun, Uttarakhand.[24]

Support to the BJP

A lifelong Congressman,[25] Tiwari along with his son Rohit Shekhar (advocate and former advisor, Government of Uttar Pradesh) and his wife Ujjwala, Tiwari gave his blessings and support to Narendra Modi and the BJP for the assembly elections held in the states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh in presence of BJP President Amit Shah in the name of development.[26][27]

Personal life

In 1953, he married Sushila (née Sanwal), who died in 1991.[28][29]

On 14 May 2013, he married Ujjwala Tiwari (née Singh), his longtime girlfriend and mother of his biological son Rohit Shekhar, at the age of 88.[30]

Tiwari died on his 93rd birthday on 18 October 2018 in

multiple organ failure.[31]
He was hospitalised for a long time.

His son Rohit Shekhar died at the age of 40 after being strangled by his wife in April 2019.[32]

Controversies

Sex scandal

Tiwari was involved in a sex scandal which depicted Tiwari in bed with three women at his official residence in the

political conspiracy".[35] On 27 December 2009, E. S. L. Narasimhan was appointed to discharge the duties of governor for the region until regular arrangements for the office were made.[36]

Paternity suit

In 2008, Rohit Shekhar filed a

biological father.[24] After long legal processes, the court ordered that DNA mapping of Tiwari be done. After further legal filibustering from his side, the court finally compelled compliance on 29 May 2011.[24] On 27 July 2011, the Delhi High Court, citing a need to end the controversy, rejected a request from Tiwari's lawyers to keep his paternity test result a secret.[24]

The DNA test results, released by the court on 27 July 2011, established that Tiwari was indeed the biological father of Rohit Shekhar Tiwari, and also that Ujjwala Singh Sharma was his biological mother.[37] Tiwari urged the media to respect his privacy, saying "I have every right to live my life my way. No one has the right to look into my private life. Please respect my privacy."[38] On 3 March 2013, he said "I have accepted that Rohit Shekhar is my son. The DNA test also proved he is my biological son," he told NDTV.[39][40]

Second marriage

On 14 May 2013, two years after the paternity test, Tiwari married Rohit Shekhar's mother, Ujjwala Singh Sharma, in a ceremony in Lucknow which had some religious elements, but was mainly a registered marriage.[41]

Born in 1953 into a family belonging to Haryana, Ujjwala was thirty years younger than Tiwari. Her father, Prof. Sher Singh, a prominent politician, served as India's Union Minister for Education and for Defense Production from 1967 to 1980, serving successively under

P.V. Narasimha Rao
. Tiwari had had little or no contact with either Ujjwala or Rohit for more than a decade before Rohit Shekhar began his campaign to establish his paternity. He began this campaign in 2007–08, very shortly after the divorce of Ujjwala and Bipin Sharma in 2006. It culminated in the wedding of 88-year-old widower Tiwari and 60-year-old divorcee Ujjwala in May 2018.

On 12 May 2018, in the presence of N.D. Tiwari and Ujjwala Tiwari, their son Rohit Shekhar Tiwari was married to Apoorva Shukla, a lawyer. Rohit and Apoorva had met through a matrimonial website, and had lived together for a few months before getting married. Nevertheless, the marriage proved stormy from the beginning. On 16 April 2019, only 11 months after the wedding, and six months after the death of N.D. Tiwari, Rohit Shekhar was found strangled to death in his bed.[42] He had allegedly been smothered to death by his wife Apoorva, at a time when he was drunk and unable to resist the attack. According to Delhi Police Statement, the murder was not pre-planned but happened in the heat of the moment. According to his wife's testimony, their relationship was sour from the beginning of their marriage. According to the testimony of Ujjwala and others, Apoorva had married Rohit with an eye on his family property and with the idea that he would become a powerful politician under his father's tutelage. She had found that her dreams were far from reality and she found that Rohit Shekhar has affair and a child with his distant relative’s wife. The trial is ongoing in court, and meanwhile, Apoorva is in jail, having been denied bail several times.[43]

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Bharat Bhushan
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Nainital

1980 – 1984 		Succeeded by
Satyendra Chandra Ghuria
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Nainital

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