Harsh Mahajan is an Indian politician and former member of the Indian National Congress (INC) who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2022.
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Wiki/Biography
Harsh Mahajan was born on Monday, 12 December 1955 (age 67; as of 2022) in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh. He went on to pursue a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Sri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Delhi University, New Delhi.
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′ 3″
Hair color: black (semi-bald)
Eye Color: Black
family
parents and siblings
Harsh’s father’s name is Desh Raj Mahajan, who was a Cabinet Minister and Speaker of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
wife and children
He married Uma Singh on June 7, 1983.
Career
Harsh began his political career in 1972 when he joined the Indian National Congress. He is a three-time former MLA from Chamba in 1993, 1998 and 2003. In 1989, he was appointed as the President of Himachal Pradesh Youth Congress (1986-1995). In 1993, he became the Parliamentary Secretary of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly. In 1998, he was again appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary of the State Legislative Assembly. In 2003, he was the Cabinet Minister for Livestock Affairs. In 2007, he left electoral politics. From 2013 to 2018, he served as the Chairman of the Himachal Pradesh Cooperative Department. He was the Vice-President and General Secretary of the Himachal Pradesh Congress for thirty-five years from 1987 to 2022. He was also the Chairman of State Cooperative Bank in 2013-2017. Under his chairmanship, the bank received three national awards. In 2022, he left the Indian National Congress. On 28 September 2022, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Tough Mahajan after joining BJP
Facts/Trivia
- In 2022, Harsh left the Congress party and joined the BJP in the presence of Union Minister Piyush Goyal and party general secretary Vinod Tawade in New Delhi. When naming the reason for leaving the party, he said.
I have been in Congress for about 45 years. I did not lose the election. Congress was there as long as Virbhadra Singh was there. Today the Congress has become ungovernable. There is no vision and there is no leadership. With the death of Virbhadra Singh, there is nothing left for the Congress in the state. Congress will not win in Himachal and BJP will win again. PM Modi is the only leader who will take the country forward. “
- In an interview, he alleged nepotism in the Congress party while talking about HPCC chief Pratibha Singh and her MLA son Vikramaditya Singh, saying the Congress has become “invisible, ungovernable and leaderless” and is run by “maa-betas” like in Delhi.
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