Harihar Nath Shastri हरि हर नाथ शास्त्री | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| In office 1952–1953 | |
| Succeeded by | S. N. Tandon |
| Constituency | Kanpur Central |
| Member of Legislative Assembly,Uttar Pradesh | |
| In office 1936–1939 | |
| In office 1946–1947 | |
| President,All India Trade Union Congress | |
| In office 1933–1935 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1905 |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Education | Graduate from BHU |
Harihar Nath Shastri was an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress. [1] He was the first Member of Parliament for Kanpur and also actively worked as a labour leader. In the late 1920s,he was viewed as a communist but was considered moderate by the late 1930s. [2] He become the first President of the Indian National Railway Workers Federation (INRWF) in 1948. [3] In 1925,he was recruited as a life member of the Servants of the People Society,by its founder-director,the late Lala Lajpat Rai,with whom he worked for a year as his private secretary. In 1947,he became a member of the Constituent Assembly of India,and upon its dissolution,became a member of the Indian Parliament,the Lok Sabha,from Kanpur.
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