Harsh Mahajan(ex- Animal Husbandry minister of

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), son of a former

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and Cabinet Minister Des Raj Mahajan and was born at

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on 12 December 1955. He has a B. Com. and MBA. He studied at Sriram College of Commerce, New Delhi and at

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, New Delhi. He married Uma Singh on 7 June 1983. He was the

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of ''State Youth Congress'' from 1986 to 1995. He got elected to the State Legislative Assembly first in November 1993 and again in 1998 and 2003. He has been the ''Parliamentary Secretary'' from 1994 to 1998 and has served as Animal Husbandry Minister (at the Cabinet level). He is also a native speaker of English and

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. On 28 September 2022, Himachal Pradesh state Congress working president and former cabinet minister Harsh Mahajan joined

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(BJP).

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