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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- ↑ Factional Politics in an Indian State: The Congress Party in Uttar Pradesh{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. University of California Press(1965)
- ↑ Lost Worlds: Indian Labour and Its Forgotten Histories{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Orient Blackswan(2003). ISBN 9788178240220
- ↑ History: National Federation of Indian Railwaymen.