Harsh Vardhan (Delhi politician)

Harsh Vardhan (Delhi politician)

Harsh Vardhan is an Indian otorhinolaryngologist. He is the incumbent Minister of Science and Technology, Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Minister of Earth Sciences in the BJP-led NDA government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He was elected to the office of Chairperson of Executive Board of the World Health Organization from May 22, 2020.

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Summary Harsh Vardhan (Delhi politician)Harsh Vardhan is an Indian otorhinolaryngologist. He is the incumbent Minister of Science and Technology, Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Minister of Earth Sciences in the BJP-led NDA government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He represents Chandni Chowk in Delhi as a Member of Parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha. He was elected to the office of Chairperson of Executive Board of the World Health Organization from May 22, 2020. He has been a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh since childhood.

In 2013, he was named the Chief Minister candidate for Delhi Assembly elections by the BJP. In March 2018, after the death of legendary British scientist Stephen Hawking, he claimed that Vedas had wrongly said that the Vedas theory was superior to Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. In 2019, he made the statement after the Health Effects Institute released a scientific report estimating 2 million annual deaths in India due to air pollution.