Former UP, Uttarakhand CM ND Tiwari passes away at Delhi hospital

DEHRADUN: Former Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand chief minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari died in a private hospital in Delhi on Thursday. He was 93 years old and today was his birthday as well. Tiwari is survived by his wife Ujjawala and son Rohit Shekhar.

Tiwari, known as "Vikas Purush", had suffered a brain-stroke and was rushed to the hospital in Delhi's Saket on September 20 last
year. He was in the ICU of the hospital till October 12 and was thereafter moved to a private room as his health improved.


Born on October 18, 1925, Tiwari was the three-time CM of Uttar Pradesh and was the first elected CM of Uttarakhand as well. His tenure as Uttarakhand CM was from March 2002 to March 2007. Uttarakhand was carved out of Uttar Pradesh on November 9, 2000. In the last 18 years, he was the lone CM of the Himalayan state to complete the entire tenure of five years.


His first stint as Uttar Pradesh CM was from January 1976 to April 1977. Tiwari became the CM of the state again, from August 1984 to September 1985, and June 1988 to December 1988. From October 1986 to July 1987, Tiwari held the key position of Union minister of external affairs and then became the minister for finance and commerce, and held the ministry till June 1988.

A senior Congress leader, Tiwari was also a key contender for the post of prime minister, which went to PV Narasimha Rao. In 1995, Tiwari, along with Arjun Singh, formed a political outfit called All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) but he returned to Congress when Sonia Gandhi took charge of the party.

Tiwari was the governor of Andhra Pradesh from August 19, 2007 to December 26, 2009. After a controversy over his alleged involvement in a sex scandal, he resigned on health grounds.

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