Harish Rawat

Harish Rawat is an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. He was born on 27 April 1948 in Mohnari village near Ranikhet, in what is now Uttarakhand’s Almora district.

Rawat served as Chief Minister of Uttarakhand from 2014 to 2017, with short breaks in 2016. Before that he was Union Minister of Water Resources from October 2012 to January 2014, and earlier a Minister of State for labour and employment, for agriculture and food processing, and for parliamentary affairs. He has been a five-time Member of Parliament, representing Almora in the Lok Sabha from 1980 to 1991, Haridwar from 2009 to 2014 and Uttarakhand in the Rajya Sabha from 2002 to 2008. He headed the Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee from 2000 to 2007 and sits on the Congress Working Committee.

In November 2026 he is in the news ahead of the 2027 Uttarakhand Assembly election. On 11 November he wrote on Facebook that he is not aspiring to become Chief Minister if Congress wins, ANI reported, and he is in a public exchange with state minister Rekha Arya.

Sources: Wikipedia, ANI via Asianet Newsable.