Harish Dwivedi: Will Sitting BJP MP Going To be Third-Time Lucky In Basti (image:twitter.com/HarishD_BJP)
By fielding Harish Dwivedi from Uttar Pradesh”s Basti constituency for a third term, the BJP is extending faith in the sitting MP.
Harish Dwivedi”s political trajectory with the BJP was linear. He began his political career with the BJP”s youth wing, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). Following, he became the Basti District Chief of ABVP and then held the roles of departmental organisation minister of ABVP Gorakhpur, Prayagraj, and Sultanpur. In 2004, Dwivedi came into contact with the state team of the party, and during the period from 2005 to 2007, he served as a political advisor to BJP state president Kesharinath Tripathi. Around the same time, Harish Dwivedi was entrusted with the role of State General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM). Later, Dwivedi exercised the role of BJP State Vice President from 2007 to 2010.
In his political debut in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections from the Basti Sadar assembly segment, he tasted defeat. Following, in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Harish Dwivedi contested from the Basti Lok Sabha seat and won. He defeated Samajwadi Party(SP) candidate Brij Kishor Singh “Dimpal” by a margin of 33,562 votes. BSP candidate Ram Prasad Chaudhary comes in third.
Similarly, in the 2019 elections, the BJP MP retained the seat by defeating the BSP”s Ram Prasad Chaudhary by a margin of 30,355 votes. Though the BSP-SP-RLD engaged in a grand alliance in the state, it failed to uproot the BJP MP.
Harish Dwivedi currently serves as the national secretary of the party as well.
During his term as a parliamentarian, he was part of various committees, including the Standing Committee on Energy, the Consultative Committee on the Ministry of Coal, the Standing Committee on Finance, and the Standing Committee on Information Technology. Harish Dwivedi currently serves as the Chairman of the Committee on Petitions and a member of the Consultative Committee on the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
