Maheshwar Hazari (born 9 October 1971) is an Indian politician.
He is Minister of Planning and Development Department in the state of Bihar.
He won Kalyanpur (Samastipur) constituency by one of the highest margins of 52,000 votes, over a nephew of Ram Vilas Paswan.
He is a former member of the Indian Parliament, and represented Samastipur (Lok Sabha constituency).
He was a three-time time MLA in the Bihar Legislative Assembly.
Hazari is a cousin of Ram Vilas Paswan.
He defeated Ram Vilas’s brother Ram Chandra Paswan.
His father, Ramsewak Hazari, was socialist politician, and was an eight-time MLA in the Bihar Assembly, and he was elected to six times as an MP in Loksabha.
He was publicly reprimanded by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for opposing a Medical College and Hospital in Sarairanjan, Samastipur district.