Veteran Congressman Narayan Dutt Tiwari is all set to make another political move as he has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday at party chief Amit Shah’s residence in Delhi. The BJP’s latest transfer from the Congress is 91 years old who had been the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, a union minister and a governor, though that stint was cut short when he resigned after a sex scandal.
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Meanwhile, Rohit Shekhar, acknowledged by the veteran politician as his son three years ago after a six-year legal battle to establish paternity.
Tiwari’s induction into the BJP is seen as an attempt to consolidate the Brahmin vote in Uttarakhand, where elections will be held next month. The BJP already faces a rebellion in the hill state after naming about 15 people who joined the party only recently as candidates for the election, among them the Congress legislators who rebelled against current Chief Minister Harish Rawat last year pushing him to seek a confidence vote.
The party has so far announced 64 candidates for Uttarakhand, which has 70 assembly seats.