Hazra is a social work (MSW) educator, author, researcher and a development professional from Bolpur-Santiniketan, West Bengal, India.
[citation needed] So far, he has authored four books and contributed over 100 research articles to different international and national social science journals across the globe.
[citation needed] Hazra was born on 30 May 1982, in a lower middle-class scheduled caste rural Bengali family in West Bengal.
[citation needed] Hailing from a non-political and academic family, Hazra started his political career as a Member of Parliament from the Bolpur Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal in 2014, by defeating the then-prominent CPI(M) leader Ram Chandra Dome with a whopping margin of over 2.5 Lakh votes.
[citation needed] In 2020, Hazra was appointed as the National Secretary (Rashtriya Mantri) of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).