Former Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Narayan Dutt Tiwari, who was recently in news over his marriage with old-time girl friend Ujjwala Sharma, still regrets his defeat in 1991 lok Sabha elections which took away his chance to become the Prime Minister.
‘Had I not lost the 1991 hustings from Nainital parliamentary constituency, I would have become the PM,’ Tiwari said here on Wednesday. Recalling the then elections, the former UP CM stated that actor Dilip Kumar had come to campaign in his favour, but he lost the polls by a mere margin of 5000 votes. After that, Congress elected P V Narsimha Rao as its Prime Ministerial candidate.
Defending the Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh in the Badaun gang rape and double murder case, Tiwari said that the former was serious into the issue, hence it has recommended a CBI probe into the incident. He further said that people were looking for a change and
BJP’s Narendra Modi emerged as the strongest contender for the same. ND Tiwari, had recently married his old-time girl friend and mother of his biological son Shekhar, Ujjwala Sharma.