Janet CollinsAll the Governor’s Women
December 28th 2009 05:19
Ex-governor Tiwari
Hell has no fury like a woman scorned may have referred specifically to the anger of a jilted woman but messing with women in business is not something to be done lightly either as the now ex-state governor in India has been made all too painfully aware.
It is about the recent sex scandal that continues to grab the headlines. It's not about one or a string of extra-marital affairs - the usual political scandal. It’s about a governor caught in bed with three women. Not only that, the person at the centre of the scandal is well into his 80s.
Narain Dutt Tiwari is now the former governor of Andhra Pradesh state in southern India. His resignation from the position followed angry street protests in the state capital of Hydrabad, including political opponents and women’s groups, after news channel, ABN Jyoti News broadcast a tape of the governor in bed with three women.
It ends a rather distinguished career for the governor having also held posts as the top elected official in the northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarackhand and as a federal minister.
Tiwari is maintaining his innocence, claims the tapes are fabricated and continues to deny that his resignation has anything to do with the scandal. The state has had other problems recently surrounding disputes over the creation of an additional state and now this scandal is turning into much more than a kinky sexual escapade.
Reports have now emerged that the women were supplied to him by another woman as a bribe in exchange for a mining contract. When the contract failed to materialise, tapes of Tiwari with the three women were leaked to the media.
Tiwari hit the headlines back in 2008 when Rohit Shekhar, the 29-year-old grandson of a former union minister filed a paternity suit on Tiwari after his repeated requests for Tiwari to recognise him as a son were denied. Shekhar’s mother, Ujjwala Sharma was married to B.P. Sharma when he was born but even though Tiwari acknowledged that a relationship between the two occurred, it was said that he referred to her in official documents as “unchaste”.
The request by Shekhar for DNA testing was declined and the paternity suit was eventually dismissed by the Delhi High Court.
This time Tiwari has not been so lucky. The moral of the current story……..Don’t mess with women.
Sourced: www.smh.com.au; www.telegraphindia.com
Image credit: www.telegraphindia.com
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