{"id":"rabindra-nath-sharma","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/rabindra-nath-sharma","language":"en","name":"Rabindra Nath Sharma","name_en":"Rabindra Nath Sharma","name_ne":"रविन्द्रनाथ शर्मा","description":"Nepalese politician","headline":"Nepalese politician","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Rabindra Nath Sharma (Nepali: रविन्द्रनाथ शर्मा) (died 22 November 2008) was a Nepalese politician, leader of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party and Minister of Finance of Nepal from 1997 to 1998.","summary_more":["Sharma was one of the few Nepali leaders that continued to advocate for a Hindu constitutional monarchy after the Parliament scrapped the Kings major powers in June 2006. His advocacy provided a much-needed backbone to those calling for a Hindu state under a constitutional monarchy at a time when the communists were engaged in political and institutional capture. In January 2008 under Sharma's leadership RPP-Nepal organized the first mass protests against the Maoist's decision to declare Nepal a republic without a referendum","In October 2006 Sharma was “unanimously” elected the chairman of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP)-Nepal after Kamal Thapa quit the post Sharma is widely credited to have been an important political and moral force to keep the debate about future of Hinduism in a secular Republic alive. For this advocacy for a Hindu constitutional monarchy and against growing Christian proselytization, goons of the CPN-Maoists attacked Sharma and his followers in Bhitamode, Nepal and then Pokhara. In 2009, a few months after Sharma's death, the Unified Maoists-affiliated All Nepal Peasants' Organisation-Revolutionary (ANPO-R) attacked and seized is land in Nawalparasi.","Sharma's politics lead him to gain the soubriquet of ‘Chanakya’ of Nepalese politics."],"facts":[{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"22 November 2008","date":"2008-11-22"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7278752#P570"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7278752#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7278752#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Rastriya Prajatantra Party","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2632719"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7278752#P102"}}],"office":{"profile":"https://diginpl.com/next/explore/person/rabindra-nath-sharma","holdings":[]},"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindra_Nath_Sharma","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7278752"],"faq":[],"related":[{"name":"Ram Chandra Mandal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ram-chandra-mandal"},{"name":"Upendra Mahato","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/upendra-mahato-q67912160"},{"name":"Onsari Gharti Magar","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/onsari-gharti-magar"},{"name":"Arjun Bahadur Thapa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arjun-bahadur-thapa"},{"name":"Chautariya Pushkar Shah","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/chautariya-pushkar-shah"},{"name":"Jigme Dorje Palbar Bista","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jigme-dorje-palbar-bista"},{"name":"Kamal Thapa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kamal-thapa"},{"name":"Krishna Bahadur Mahara","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/krishna-bahadur-mahara"},{"name":"Prince Bahadur Shah of Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/prince-bahadur-shah-of-nepal"},{"name":"Pushpa Lal Shrestha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pushpa-lal-shrestha"},{"name":"Barsaman Pun","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/barsaman-pun"},{"name":"Bhumika Shrestha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bhumika-shrestha"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":null,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Rabindra Nath Sharma","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindra_Nath_Sharma","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q7278752","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7278752","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 Rabindra Nath Sharma, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0).","cite":"\"Rabindra Nath Sharma\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/rabindra-nath-sharma. Retrieved 7 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T15:28:16Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-07","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/rabindra-nath-sharma","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/rabindra-nath-sharma","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/rabindra-nath-sharma?lang=ne"}}