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New Delhi, March 3 (HS). Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan has announced his retirement from politics. Recently, in the list of candidates released by BJP, Praveen Khandelwal has been given ticket in his place from Chandni Chowk.
With best wishes for Prime Minister Modi's return, he expressed happiness that he got the opportunity to work with him. He also thanked the party workers, fans and common citizens as well as the party leaders.
Referring to his career in a social media post, he talked about reconnecting with his roots. “My ENT clinic in Krishna Nagar is also waiting for my return,” he said. He said that they will work against tobacco and drug abuse, climate change and to teach simple and sustainable lifestyle.
Referring to his career spanning over thirty years, he said that in these thirty years he had contested five assembly and two parliamentary elections and won with exemplary margins and held many prestigious positions in the party organization and in the state and central governments. He said that he had entered politics at the behest of the Sangh. “They (the Sangh) could convince me only because for me politics meant an opportunity to fight our three main enemies – poverty, disease and ignorance.”
Dr Harsh Vardhan said, “A volunteer at heart, I have always been an ardent admirer of Deen Dayal Upadhyay's Antyodaya philosophy of striving to serve the last person in the queue.” As a Minister at the Centre, he got the rare opportunity to first work towards achieving a polio-free India and later to look after the health of millions of our countrymen battling the dreaded Covid-19.