New Delhi: Rohit Shekhar Tiwari, son of the late Uttarakhand Chief Minister N D Tiwari, died Tuesday, police and hospital officials said.
He was brought dead at Max Hospital in Saket in south Delhi, the hospital said. DCP (South) Vijay Kumar said Rohit Tiwari, a resident of Defence Colony in south Delhi, was brought to the hospital around 5pm in an ambulance, where doctors declared him dead.
His mother Ujjwala Tiwari was also admitted to the same hospital where she received a call from their home about her son being "unwell and bleeding from nose", he said.
"Max Hospital received an emergency call from the residence of Rohit Shekhar Tiwari at 4:41 pm this afternoon. An ambulance brought Tiwari to Max Hospital, Saket, where he was declared brought dead at the emergency department," the hospital said in a brief statement.
"As per established procedure, we have informed the authorities," it said.
Narayan Dutt Tiwari died at the age of 93 on October 18, his birthday, last year. He too was undergoing treatment for age-related complications at the Saket hospital.
The Congress veteran, who had served in various positions at the Centre, was the chief of minister of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
Rohit Tiwari joined the BJP ahead of the 2017 Uttarakhand assembly polls and recently indicated he could join the Congress.
Who is Rohit Shekhar?
Rohit Shekhar fought a paternity suit against 88-year-old Narayan Dutt Tiwari, who had held numerous cabinet posts for the Congress Party in a political career spanning six decades.
Shekhar's paternity suit had caused a sensation when it was first filed and also garnered significant media attention with it constantly finding a place in India's media landscape.
Shekhar's mother - Ujjawala Sharma, had left her husband's home with a two-year-old son, Shekhar's elder brother, in the mid-1970s. She went back to live with her father, who was Prof Sher Singh, a prominent politician. It was then that she started seeing ND Tiwari, who was an up-and-coming politician at that time and a family friend.
After a few years of courtship, she gave birth to Shekhar, but ND Tiwari refused to lend his name to the child. Shekhar had claimed that it would have been a big blow to Tiwari's political career, as he was a married man.
