Hours after he turned 93, veteran politician N D Tiwari, died here on Thursday. Tiwari was ailing for a long time and undergoing treatment at Max Super Speciality Hospital since September last year after a brain stroke. He breathed his last at 2.50 pm. Doctors said the end came after a heart attack. ND Tiwari occupied many important positions during his long career. Tiwari was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh multiple times — from January 1976 to April 1977, from August 1984 to September 1985 and from June 1988 to December 1988.
He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1980 and Rajya Sabha in 1985, and, as Union minister, held a variety of portfolios. He was Chief Minister of Uttarakhand from 2002 to 2007 and Governor of Andhra Pradesh from 2007 to 2009.