NEW DELHI: Former Union minister N D Tiwari was admitted today to a private hospital here after he suffered a brain stroke, his son Rohit Shekhar Tiwari said.
Sources at Max Hospital in Saket said the condition of 91-year-old Tiwari, a former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, is serious and he is being kept under observation in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
A team of doctors is attending to him, they said.
Rohit said his father fell unconscious this morning while having tea at his house here.
Several political leaders including Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and former chief ministers of the state Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav called on telephone to enquire about his father's well-being, Rohit said.