{"id":"mangal-prasad-tharu","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mangal-prasad-tharu","language":"en","name":"Mangal Prasad Tharu","name_en":"Mangal Prasad Tharu","name_ne":"मंगल प्रसाद थारु","description":"Nepalese politician","headline":"Nepalese politician","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Mangal Prasad Tharu (Nepali: मंगल प्रसाद थारु) is a Nepalese politician. He was elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the 1999 election on behalf of the Nepali Congress.","summary_more":["In the 2017 Nepalese provincial elections, Tharu ran for the Bardiya 1(B) of the Lumbini Provincial Assembly, and was defeated by Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) candidate Tilak Ram Sharma."],"facts":[{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6748642#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6748642#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Nepali Congress","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216660"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6748642#P102"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Member of the Parliament of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19694523"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6748642#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangal_Prasad_Tharu","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6748642"],"faq":[{"q":"What positions has Mangal Prasad Tharu held?","a":"Positions held by Mangal Prasad Tharu include: Member of the Parliament of Nepal."}],"related":[{"name":"Ram Baran Yadav","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ram-baran-yadav"},{"name":"K. P. Sharma Oli","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/k-p-sharma-oli"},{"name":"Pushpa Kamal Dahal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pushpa-kamal-dahal"},{"name":"Ram Chandra Paudel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ram-chandra-paudel"},{"name":"Sushil Koirala","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/sushil-koirala"},{"name":"Surya Bahadur Thapa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/surya-bahadur-thapa"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":null,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Mangal Prasad Tharu","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangal_Prasad_Tharu","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q6748642","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6748642","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"}],"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 Mangal Prasad Tharu, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0).","cite":"\"Mangal Prasad Tharu\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/mangal-prasad-tharu. Retrieved 15 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T14:57:58Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-15","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/mangal-prasad-tharu","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/mangal-prasad-tharu","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/mangal-prasad-tharu?lang=ne"}}