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Dhakal serves at the Nepal-US Parliamentary Friendship Group.\nIn April 2025, Dhakal was named as the Inaugural Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Speakers’ Conference (ISC), an inter-parliamentary, intergovernmental, multilateral organization that promotes parliamentary diplomacy.\nIn June 2025, Dhakal met Pope Leo XIV during IPU’s Parliamentary Conference on Interfaith Dialogue in Italy.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"13 August 1974","date":"1974-08-13"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5350224#P569"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5350224#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"peace activist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16323111"},{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5350224#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Nepal Pariwar Dal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3366559"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5350224#P102"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Tribhuvan University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q588239","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/tribhuvan-university"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5350224#P69"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Member of the 2nd Constituent Assembly of Nepal (19 November 2013 – 13 October 2017)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21328597","start":"2013-11-19","end":"2017-10-13"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5350224#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ek_Nath_Dhakal","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A5_%E0%A4%A2%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5350224"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Ek Nath Dhakal born?","a":"Ek Nath Dhakal was born on 13 August 1974."},{"q":"What positions has Ek Nath Dhakal held?","a":"Positions held by Ek Nath Dhakal include: Member of the 2nd Constituent Assembly of Nepal (2013–2017)."},{"q":"Where did Ek Nath Dhakal study?","a":"Ek Nath Dhakal was educated at Tribhuvan University."}],"related":[{"name":"Sushil Koirala","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/sushil-koirala"},{"name":"Madhav Kumar Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/madhav-kumar-nepal"},{"name":"Jhala Nath Khanal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jhala-nath-khanal"},{"name":"Baburam Bhattarai","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/baburam-bhattarai"},{"name":"Gagan Thapa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gagan-thapa"},{"name":"Rajeev Bikram Shah","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/rajeev-bikram-shah"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/ek-nath-dhakal-686069d1cf.jpg","width":500,"height":412,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"Wikiwikiok","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ek_Nath_Dhakal.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Ek Nath Dhakal","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ek_Nath_Dhakal","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): एक नाथ ढकाल","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A5_%E0%A4%A2%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q5350224","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5350224","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Ek Nath Dhakal.jpg by Wikiwikiok (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ek_Nath_Dhakal.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Ek Nath Dhakal, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Ek Nath Dhakal.jpg — Wikiwikiok, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Ek Nath Dhakal\". DigiNepal. Last updated 18 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/ek-nath-dhakal. Retrieved 6 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-18T02:10:49Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-06","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/ek-nath-dhakal","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/ek-nath-dhakal","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/ek-nath-dhakal?lang=ne"}}