NEW DELHI: Having failed to secure an escape route through all possible legal avenues, senior Indian politician, ND Tiwari, faces the ignominy of subjecting himself to a DNA test to prove or disprove his having fathered a child outside his marriage. Tiwari exercised all possible avenues up to the country's highest court – the Supreme Court of India – to avoid the DNA test. Tiwari has been barred from leaving the country by the Delhi High Court which also asked him to choose within two days whether he would gracefully subject himself to the DNA test or be forced by Delhi police to do so. The senior politician, now an octogenarian was once a powerful man. He was Chief Minister of India's most populous and politically powerful state of Uttar Pradesh. He has also been the country's Finance Minister and in the latter part of his career was governor of some other Indian states. He fell from grace in 2009 when a sting operation caught videos of him in compromising position with three women in his official residence as Governor of the East Indian State of Andhra Pradesh. He resigned after it became a major scandal when several television channels aired the footage. Tiwari was fighting for several years, this particular paternity suit filed by a man in his '30s who claims the politician is his biological father. The man, Rohit Shekhar, alleges in the suit that Tiwari had a relationship with his mother, also a politician, during his reign as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
