New Delhi, Jan 18 (Agencies) : Former Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh chief minister and a senior Congress leader, Narayan Dutt Tiwari along with his son Rohit Shekhar joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in presence of party president ASmit Shah on Wednesday.
Reports suggest that Tiwari wants a ticket for his son from Kumaon region of Uttarakhand and therefore the Congress veteran joined the BJP.
Rohit Shekhar is the biological son of ND Tiwari and Ujjwala Sharma, who Tiwari married in 2014.
The veteran Congress politician Tiwari had accepted Rohit, who took him to court, as his son last year after his marriage.
Tiwari, who has been the governor of Andhra Pradesh and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, fought his son all the way to the Supreme Court before marrying Ujjwala.
Shekhar went to court against Tiwari in 2008, claiming he was born out of an affair between the Congress leader and his mother.
The 91-year-old leader was thrice the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh (1976-77, 1984-85, 1988-89) and once the chief minister of Uttarakhand (2002-2007).In 1986-1987, he served in former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi`s cabinet as Minister for External Affairs.
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ND Tiwari had earlier served as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh as well as Andhra Pradesh Governor.
Congress leader Narayan Dutt Tiwari and his son Rohit Shekhar will join the BJP on Wednesday, news agency ANI reported. Tiwari has been seeking a ticket for Rohit from Kumaon region of Uttarakhand and the BJP has reportedly agreed to his demand.
The 91-year-old leader was discharged from a private hospital in Haldwani on January 15, after falling unconscious. According to hospital sources, Tiwari was admitted due to “transient loss of consciousness”.
Tiwari had earlier served as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh as well as Andhra Pradesh Governor. In 2013, Shekhar had filed a paternity suit claiming that the Congress leader and 67-year-old Ujjwala Sharma were his biological parents. While initially refusing to undergo any DNA tests, Tiwari finally agreed and the test results declared that Rohit was his biological son. The Delhi HC in 2014 passed an order declaring Shekhar as the biological son of ND Tiwari.