Last Updated: March 03, 2024, 14:30 IST
Dr Harsh Vardhan served as Union Health Minister during 1st and 2nd phase of Covid-19 pandemic.
In an emotional farewell message on X, the BJP MP from Delhi remembered his 30-year-long political journey
Former Union Health Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Dr Harsh Vardhan on Sunday announced that he is quitting politics and would be returning to medical practice in his hometown Kanpur.
In an emotional farewell message on X, the BJP MP from Delhi remembered his 30-year-long political journey and expressed gratitude towards all the party workers and colleagues.
“After over thirty years of a glorious electoral career, during which I won all the five assemblies and two parliamentary elections that I fought with exemplary margins, and held a multitude of prestigious positions in the party organisation and the governments at the state and centre I finally bow out to return to my roots,” Dr Harsh Vardhan wrote.
After over thirty years of a glorious electoral career, during which I won all the five assembly and two parliamentary elections that I fought with exemplary margins, and held a multitude of prestigious positions in the party organisation and the governments at the state and…— Dr Harsh Vardhan (@drharshvardhan) March 3, 2024
“Service to mankind was my motto when I joined MBBS in GSVM Medical College, Kanpur fifty years back with a desire to help the poor and needy. A swayamsewak at heart, I have always been an ardent admirer of Deen Dayal Upadhyay ji’s Antodaya philosophy of striving to serve the last man in the queue. It was at the insistence of the then-RSS leadership that I jumped into the electoral fray. They could convince me only because for me politics meant the opportunity to fight our three main enemies – poverty, disease and ignorance,” he added.