N D Tiwari’s continuance as Andhra Pradesh Governor appears to have become untenable with indications that the 86-year-old leader may be asked to go in the wake of a sting operation that purportedly showed him in a compromising position with three women. The Central Government has asked for a report from the state government and knowledgeable sources here said that he may be asked to quit the post following severe embarrassment to the Congress party. Meanwhile, to the last reports at the time of writing the report Mr. Tiwari has resigned and Congress has termed that he has taken a moral stand.

After the sting operation was telecast yesterday by the ABN Andhra Jyothi channel, the Raj Bhavan approached the Andhra Pradesh High Court and got a restraint order on the channel from telecasting the footage.

However, the channel’s Editor-in-Chief Vemuri Radhakrishna said that they have evidence to back what they have shown. “Let them serve defamation notice. We are even ready to deal with the issue”.

Sources in the Government said the Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary has been asked to give a report on the issue and it will take a view once it is received.

Congress sources said that the party is concerned over the issue as it has embarrassed it. They said the embarrassment was more acute because of Tiwari’s long association with the party and he may have to go.

Congress spokesman Shakeel Ahmed said that the High Court is looking into the matter. “Since the matter is sub-judice, no one should comment upon it”.

This is not the first time that Tiwari, a former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand and a former Union Minister, has figured in controversies involving women.

Sometime ago, a lawyer Rohit Shekhar had filed a paternity suit in Delhi High Court against Tiwari claiming that he was born out of intimate relationship between the Congress leader and his mother Ujwala Sharma. The charge was, however, denied by the Governor.

The Delhi High Court, however, had rejected the petition on the ground that Shekhar filed it a long time after becoming a major and was time-barred.

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