After resigning from the Andhra Pradesh governor’s post following an alleged sex scandal, veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari today returned to Uttarakhand, his home state.
As Tiwari landed at the Jollygrant airport, scores of Congress leaders gathered there to welcome him. However, Tiwari remained unperturbed by the reports of the raging sex scandal that shook the Raj Bhavan in Hyderabad. “All these allegations are false and fabricated. It was a conspiracy against me,” Tiwari told reporters here.
Tiwari also vowed to fight a legal battle to come clean in the episode. After landing at the airport, Tiwari is understood to have gone to his palatial house in the campus of the prestigious Forest Research Institute (FRI) here which was allotted to him soon after he became the Andhra Pradesh governor in 2007. “Tiwari will certainly settle down in this house,” said a close associate of Tiwari.
Sources close to Tiwari told Business Standard that he may be down at the moment, but is not certainly out of the national politics. “Once the clean chit comes, Tiwari will bounce back but all that depends on the mood of Congress President Sonia Gandhi,” said a Congress leader.
In this regard, the sources pointed out that Congress leader Digvijay Singh told the media in Saharanpur yesterday that he was doubtful about the sting operation.
Meanwhile, state Congress President Yashpal Arya also held talks with Tiwari. Arya is understood to have promised full support of the state Congress to Tiwari, who has the rare distinction of being the chief minister of two states — undivided Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
