Harshvardhan Bajpai is an Indian politician from the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

. He is active in politics since 2007. Before joining BJP he was in the

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP) is a political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), along with Religious ...

. He is a one-time Member of the Legislative Assembly from Allahabad North Assembly constituency in

Allahabad Prayagraj (, ; ISO 15919, ISO: ), formerly and colloquially known as Allahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi, Varanasi (Benar ...

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

Education

He went to

St. Joseph's College, Allahabad St. Joseph's College, abbreviated to SJC, established in 1884, is a prominent Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, CISCE-affiliated elite school in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, with high rankings both in the state and in In ...

. He got his bachelor's degree in software engineering from

University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public university, public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Fir ...

in England and Masters in Finance & Control from the

Department of Financial Studies The Department of Financial Studies (DFS) is a department of the University of Delhi offering programs in finance. Tracing its roots in the Delhi School of Economics, the DFS was carved out of the Department of Commerce of the university in 1987 ...

of the University of Delhi South Campus.

Family

Harshvardhan Bajpai was born on 30 July 1980. His father Ashok Kumar Bajpai won in 1980 from Allahabad North (Assembly constituency) on ticket of

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

was a

Member of the Legislative Assembly (India) A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district (constituency) to the legislature of States of India, State government in the Indian system of government. From each constituency, the ...

. His mother Ranjana Bajpai was national president of the

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; ) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India. It was founded on 4 October 1992 by former Janata Dal politician Mulayam Singh Yadav and is headquartered in New Delhi. It is the third-largest political party in ...

Mahila Sabha-the party women's wing. He is grandson of congress stalwart Rajendra Kumari Bajpai former Union Minister of India and D.N. Bajpai was teacher by profession.

Career

He won in

assembly election in 2017 with a margin of 35035 on ticket of BJP defeating Anugrah Narayan Singh of congress who is four-time Member of the Legislative Assembly. This margin is the highest in history of Allahabad North (Assembly constituency).

References

Living people Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2017–2022 1980 births Bahujan Samaj Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2022–2027 Alumni of the University of Sheffield {{UttarPradesh-BJP-politician-stub