New Delhi: Conventionally speaking, 86 is perhaps an age where one slowly relinquishes the warm joys of being a grandfather and begins tinkering with the idea that maybe… just about maybe you could well be a great grandfather. But for Indian Congressman Narayan Dutt Tiwari, who has been freefalling from grace over the last few years, the age of 86 is proving to be a year of ignominy. For at 86, Tiwari is being challenged by a 32-year-old gentleman Rohit Shekhar, who has filed a paternity suit against the former in court. Shekhar has claimed that Tiwari is his father, a fact which the ageing politician who was known as one of the last breed of politicians who wore the famed and virtuous Gandhi cap to work, has vehemently denied. An Indian court has now given Tiwari, a former union finance minister and a former chief minister of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, two days for his voluntary sanction for a paternity test or let the police heave him over to a DNA test centre. Tiwari has also been asked by Justice Reva Khetrapal not to leave the country, until he gives his blood sample for DNA testing under orders from the Delhi high court and the Supreme court of India. In a year 2012, where ancient prophecies have claimed that a deluge would end the world and the world would no longer be the way we see it, Tiwari joins another Congress man Abhishek Manu Singhvi who perhaps, we will never see in the same way that we used to on television debates. Abhishek Manu Singhvi's alleged sex video last month already rocked social networking forums, shocked his party and knocked Singhvi himself from several key positions, the most important being the spokesperson of the Congress party as well as a key parliamentary committee. And on Monday, the Tiwari soap opera trends on Twitter, challenging the interest India shows in Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's birthday. In 2007, when social networking forums weren't the rage they are now, Tiwari, as Governor of the south eastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, made it to television in a sex scandal which was broadcast by a local cable news channel. Tiwari, still wearing the trademark Gandhi cap, was caught on hidden camera, in bed with three women. The ensuing controversy forced Tiwari to resign on “health grounds”.
The most fitting tribute to Tiwari's status as a ‘father in question' is on Twitter, which has linked the Tiwari story to that of a recent Bollywood hit film ‘Vicky Donor'.
@KiranKs even gives it a ‘Vicky Donor' + James Bond touch. ND Tiwari introduces himself to Vicky Donor in the James Bond style. “Hi, I am Tiwari.. Donor Tiwari.. Nehruvian Donor Tiwari” .
@abhijitmajumder says ND Tiwari will be that rare case in which the nurse comes out of the room and screams, ‘It's a dad!'
