It’s his baby
Pun intended, it was his baby to begin with, which is reason enough for Narayan Dutt Tiwari to have handled this matter of paternity far better than his eventually bowing to the conclusive certainty of a DNA test.
True, sex and paternity are personal matters. But not for a man who has been in public life for over 60 years and who should have known that a little honesty along the way in 33 long years would have precluded the problem from springing upon him in the public domain, as it eventually did. Putting up a defence based on his having been involved in the freedom struggle of yore was unlikely to work in his favour.
How many children he bred biologically as opposed to children in wedlock, of which he has none, is certainly his choice and society should have little say in that. The right to property may be involved in such legal battles and we may not have heard the last of it in this case. Considering all the high posts, including chief minister of Uttar Pradesh thrice and, briefly, governor of Andhra Pradesh, he held in his long political stint, it was his bounden duty not to let his private life spill over like this. Mr Tiwari should have shown far more wisdom.
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