Harihar Nath Shastri was an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress. He was the first Member of Parliament for Kanpur and also actively worked as a labour leader. In the late 1920s, he was viewed as a communist but was considered moderate by the late 1930s. He become the first President of the Indian National Railway Workers Federation (INRWF) in 1948. In 1925, he was recruited as a life member of the Servants of the People Society, by its founder-director, the late Lala Lajpat Rai, with whom he worked for a year as his private secretary. In 1947, he became a member of the Constituent Assembly of India, and upon its dissolution, became a member of the Indian Parliament, the Lok Sabha, from Kanpur.