Harihar Nath Shastri

{{Short description|Indian politician}}

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{{Infobox Politician

| name = Harihar Nath Shastri
हरि हर नाथ शास्त्री

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| office = Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha

| term_start = 1952

| term_end = 1953

| constituency = [[Kanpur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kanpur

Central]]

| successor = S. N. Tandon

| office3 = President, All India Trade Union Congress

| term_start3 = 1933

| term_end3 = 1935

| term_start1 = 1936

| term_end1 = 1939

| term_start2 = 1946

| term_end2 = 1947

| office1 = Member of Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh

| birth_date= 1905

| birth_place= Ballia (Uttar Pradesh)

| education = Graduate from BHU

| party=Indian National Congress

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| children =

| website=

}}

Harihar Nath Shastri was an Indian politician who was a member of the Indian National Congress.{{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}}

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 communist but was considered moderate by the late 1930s.{{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}} He become the first President of the Indian National Railway Workers Federation (INRWF) in 1948.{{cite web | url=http://www.nfirindia.org/About_History.aspx | title=History: National Federation of Indian Railwaymen | accessdate=29 April 2014}} 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.