Harihar Nath Shastri was an Indian politician who was a member of the Indian National Congress. 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. He become the first President of the Indian National Railway Workers Federation (INRWF) in 1948. 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.
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