 Pradhan is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).In addition to being a General Secretary, he was assigned additional responsibility to look after the party activities in Jharkhand in August 2011.Dharmendra Pradhan is close aide and a trusted confidant of Prime minister Narendra Modi, BJP party President Amit Shah and was one of the Chief Architects for the victory of BJP in Bihar in the Lok Sabha election of 2014.