Vardhan, a five-time MLA and two-time MP from the constituency, has served as Union Minister of Health and as Union Environment Minister. In the announcement, he also hinted at returning to his career as an ENT surgeon and resuming duties at his clinic in East Delhi’s Krishna Nagar.

Announcing his exit from politics, the senior party leader posted on X, “After over thirty years of a glorious electoral career, during which I won all the five assembly and two parliamentary elections that I fought with exemplary margins, and held a multitude of prestigious positions in the party organisation and the governments at the state and centre I finally bowed out to return to my roots. ”

He said that his motto has been to “help the poor and the needy”, since the first day at his alma mater GSVM Medical College, Kanpur – where he studied MBBS. Vardhan added that he entered politics following the insistence of the then RSS leadership.