Hriday Narayan Dikshit

Hriday Narayan Dikshit is an Indian politician and the former speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

He was a member of the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Seventeenth Vidhan Sabha, currently representing Bhagwantnagar (Assembly constituency) of Unnao district.

Hriday Narayan Dixit became an MLA from Bhagwantnagar in Unnao district, defeating BSP's Shashank Shekhar Singh by 53,366 votes.

During The Emergency in India, which was imposed in the country from 26 June 1975 to 21 March 1977, Dixit was also imprisoned for 19 months.

His chief literary works are Madhu Abhilasha, Deen Dayal Upadhyay: Drashta, Drishti aur Darshan and Hind Swaraj ka Punarpaath.