Leaving Haldwani railway station and entering the main city area, Sushila Tiwari Government Medical College and Hospital is not to be missed. The medical college is regarded as the ‘AIIMS of the poor’ for some of those who voted in Uttarakhand today (February 14). One of the largest hospitals in Kumaon region with satisfactory facilities, the medical college is often in the news for all the wrong reasons.
In 2018, four newborns died in the hospital within 24 hours, prompting district authorities to act. The following year a professor was accused of sexually assaulting six students. Then, an RTI in 2019 revealed that 13,187 people died at the medical center in the past nine years.
Medical facilities become a major factor in moving votes, especially in times of coronavirus. But this story is not about health issues in the polling state. William Shakespeare once asked ‘What is in a name?’ However, he may not always be right.
The recently released ‘Gahreiyaan’ made noise for its mature handling of complicated relationships and the dark realities of life, with newspapers carrying front-page reports on Sushila Tiwari’s husband.
Who is Sushila Tiwari’s husband?
Narayan Dutt Tiwari, husband of Sushila Tiwari and the first elected Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, has the distinction of being the first person to become the CM of two states – Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Since Uttarakhand was carved out of UP in November 2000, only one chief minister, ND Tiwari of the Congress, has completed his full five-year term. But what he is perhaps most famous for is his personal life.
ND Tiwari’s Not-So-Syrpy Saga
When ‘Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna’ hit the theaters almost 16 years ago, many people criticized Karan Johar for allegedly endorsing infidelity, a charge strongly denied by the director.
Johar once shared that he got the idea behind the film when he saw a real couple breaking up on amicable terms in London. The break-up led him to explore the deeper dynamics of marriage and relationships, where he came up with the plot of the film.
It’s hard to accept a fact, secret romance does exist and it comes with its own complications.
ND Tiwari too, perhaps, would not have thought before landing in ‘inconvenient premises’ until 2008, when Rohit Shekhar filed a paternity suit, claiming that Tiwari was his biological father. His claim was confirmed through a DNA test in 2012. Thus, Tiwari was forced to accept the fact in 2014.
This was the year when Tiwari married Rohit’s mother Ujjwala Sharma at the age of 88. His first wife Sushila Sanwal Tiwari died in 1991. He was married to Sushila since 1954 but had no children.
“My first wife (Sushila Sanwal Tiwari) died of pancreatic cancer 21 years ago. I needed a partner now,” Tiwari said after his marriage. He passed away in 2018 at the age of 93 after a prolonged illness and multiple organ failure.
While Rohit was trying to prove his ties with Shekhar Tiwari, the former chief minister was serving as the governor of Andhra Pradesh. But he was forced to step down in 2009 after being embroiled in an alleged sex tape controversy.
A local television channel had aired a video of the then 86-year-old Congress leader purportedly in bed with three young women. Tiwari said the footage has been tampered with.
“Photos were morphed. My photos were taken and merged. In this age of technology, anything is possible. It’s even more difficult these days to watch TV with your mother or daughter. Advertisements made for America now Showing in India,” a national daily quoted him as saying in 2010.
Popular Garhwali singer and poet Narendra Singh Negi composed a musical satire on ND Tiwari. The title, Nauchami Narayana, which means ‘mischievous Narayan’ in Garhwali, depicts Tiwari’s lookalike as Lord Krishna, with a crown, a flute and a flute. gopis,
Overnight ‘Son-Uday’
Once hesitant to accept Rohit Shekhar as his son, ND Tiwari was seen by 2016 trying to establish Shekhar in the mainstream politics of the hill state. While the family lived in Lucknow, the father-son duo often traveled to Uttarakhand. He demanded to convert Dr. Sushila Tiwari Government Medical College and Hospital into AIIMS. He was seen meeting the employees of the Hindustan Machine Tool Factory at the time of its closure, and also met the family of the Haldwani soldier, who was posthumously awarded the Ashok Chakra.
In 2015, the two, along with Shekhar’s mother Ujjwala, locked themselves and Sushila Tiwari sat on a dharna outside the government hospital, which was built during the leader’s tenure and named after his first wife. Tiwari, along with his family, decided to sit on a dharna after visiting the hospital and was shocked to see the hospital lacking medical equipment as well as the very few staff, among other mistakes.
Rohit Shekhar’s ‘Pati, Patni Aur Woh’
Tiwari’s dream of launching his son, unfortunately, did not last long. A few years after his death, Rohit Shekhar’s story had a tragic end. The real-life remake of the hit Bollywood film ‘Pati, Patni Aur Woh’ marked the climax of her life in 2019.
Shekhar’s lawyer wife Apoorva Shukla confessed that he had killed her with a pillow. The story began in 2017 when the two met through a matrimonial website and eventually got married the following year. Problems started a few months later when the couple moved into Shekhar’s posh house in Defense Colony, New Delhi.
Apoorva apparently came to know about Shekhar’s closeness to a woman, who was his distant relative. Due to the growing closeness between Tiwari’s son and friend-relative, an argument broke out between the husband and wife and the matter increased so much that there was talk of divorce.
The situation got worse when Lok Sabha elections were about to take place in 2019. Reportedly, friend-relatives accompanied Ujjwala and Shekhar to Uttarakhand when they were traveling to cast their votes.
When Apoorva made a video call to her husband, she saw Shekhar drinking alcohol with a friend-relative. On returning to Delhi, there was a fight between the husband and wife over the woman.
In the heat of the moment, Apoorva allegedly strangled Shekhar, who was in an inebriated state, with a pillow. According to reports, Tiwari’s son slowly gave up and a tired Apoorva sat on the same bed when he came to know that Rohit had passed away.
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