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| name = Harihar Nath Shastri<br>हरि हर नाथ शास्त्री<br />
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| office = [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]<br />
| term_start = 1952<br />
| term_end = 1953<br />
| constituency = [[Kanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kanpur<br />
Central]]<br />
| successor = [[Shiv Narayan Tandon|S. N. Tandon]]<br />
| office3 = [[President (corporate title)|President]], [[All India Trade Union Congress]]<br />
| term_start3 = 1933<br />
| term_end3 = 1935<br />
| term_start1 = 1936<br />
| term_end1 = 1939<br />
| term_start2 = 1946<br />
| term_end2 = 1947<br />
| office1 = [[Member of Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of Legislative Assembly]], [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly|Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
| birth_date= {{birth year|1905}}<br />
| birth_place= [[Ballia|Ballia (Uttar Pradesh)]]<br />
| education = Graduate from [[Banaras Hindu University|BHU]]<br />
| party=[[Indian National Congress]]<br />
| spouse= <br />
| children =<br />
| website=<br />
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'''Harihar Nath Shastri''' was an Indian politician and a member of the [[Indian National Congress]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/factionalpolitic0000bras | url-access=registration | quote=harihar nath shastri. | title=Factional Politics in an Indian State: The Congress Party in Uttar Pradesh | publisher=University of California Press | author=Brass, Paul |authorlink=Paul Brass | year=1965 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/factionalpolitic0000bras/page/197 197] | accessdate=29 April 2014}}</ref><br />
He was the first Member of Parliament for [[Kanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|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.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JTZALAjtrR0C&q=harihar+nath+shastri&pg=PA290 | title=Lost Worlds: Indian Labour and Its Forgotten Histories | publisher=Orient Blackswan | author=Joshi, Chitra | year=2003 | pages=290 | isbn=9788178240220 | accessdate=29 April 2014}}</ref> He become the first President of the Indian National Railway Workers Federation (INRWF) in 1948.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nfirindia.org/About_History.aspx | title=History: National Federation of Indian Railwaymen | accessdate=29 April 2014}}</ref> 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.<br />
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