Harsh Mahajan

Some Lesser Known Facts About Harsh Mahajan

• Harsh Mahajan is an Indian politician and former member of INC. In 2022, he resigned from the INC and joined BJP.

• He joined the BJP in presence of Union minister Piyush Goyal and party general secretary Vinod Tawade in New Delhi. In an interview, he talked about this and said,
  

  I’ve been in Congress for about 45 years. I didn’t lose an election. Congress was there till Virbhadra Singh was there. Today, Congress has become directionless. There is no vision and there is no leadership. After the passing away of Virbhadra Singh, there is nothing left for the Congress in the state. Congress will not win in Himachal, and the BJP will win again. PM Modi is the only leader who will take the country forward.”

  

• Under his chairmanship at  State Cooperative Bank, the bank received three national awards.

• In 2007, he left electoral politics because the party tickets were sold. He further said that the Congress in-charge of Himachal, Rajiv Shukla, didn’t consider common party workers. In an interview, he talked about this and said,
  

  I tried to meet him many times but he was not available. I tried to bring the ground situation in the Congress to the notice of Rahul Gandhi, but he also did not spare time for party affairs.”

• When he left the Congress party, he lashed out at the Congress leadership of the state and alleged them of nepotism in INC by taking a dig at HPCC chief Pratibha Singh and her MLA son Vikramaditya Singh and said that Congress had become “visionless, directionless and leaderless” and was ruled by “maa-beta” like in Delhi.