Live! ND Tiwari finally accepts Rohit Shekhar as his son

March 03, 2014 11:06

After a six-year legal battle that involved emotional arguments and a DNA test, veteran Congress politician ND Tiwari has finally accepted a young man who took him to court, as his son.

"I have accepted that Rohit Shekhar is my son. The DNA test also proved he is my biological son," Tiwari said in his first ever public acknowledgement of the 34-year-old and his mother Ujjwala Sharma.

On Sunday night, Tiwari invited Rohit to his house and spoke to him for the first time in years, reportedly telling him that he was tired of fighting.

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