Former Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand chief minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari died at a private hospital in Delhi on Thursday. He was 93.

The veteran politician, who had also served as Union minister in several Congress governments and as Andhra Pradesh governor, had been admitted to the Max Super Speciality Hospital in September last year after suffering a brain stroke.

Tiwari’s career was marred somewhat by a couple of controversies in his later years.

In 2009, when he was Andhra governor, a video clip emerged purportedly showing three women in bed with an elderly man in the Raj Bhavan. The scandal ended Tiwari’s public career. He resigned citing “health grounds”.

In 2008, Tiwari had got embroiled in a paternity suit filed by a young lawyer, Rohit Shekhar, who claimed the politician was his biological father. A court-ordered DNA test confirmed the claim in 2012. Two years later, aged 88, Tiwari married Shekhar’s mother Ujjwala Sharma in Lucknow.

Tiwari had won his first election on a Praja Samajwadi Party ticket from Nainital in 1952. A decade later, he joined the Congress and stuck with it for most of his life, except for briefly floating his own party in the 1990s and announcing support for the BJP last year.

Tiwari was Uttar Pradesh chief minister for three brief stints. At the Centre, he was minister for planning, finance, petroleum and external affairs.