{"id":"raj-kishor-mahato","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/raj-kishor-mahato","language":"en","name":"Raj Kishor Mahato","name_en":"Raj Kishor Mahato","name_ne":"राजकिशोर महतो","description":"Nepalese politician and entrepreneur","headline":"Nepalese politician and entrepreneur","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Raj Kishor Mahato (Nepali: राजकिशोर महतो) is a Nepalese politician, former teacher, managing director and currently a member of Pratinidhi Sabha from Rastriya Swatantra Party. He entered into politics in 2017, taking a general membership of then Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal and contested in 2017 Nepal province election from Dhanusha 4(B), but lost to Satrudhan Mahato of CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist), He belongs to the kushwaha(koiri) caste of Nepal.","summary_more":["He joined the Rastriya Swatantra Party in 2026 and secured a party ticket to contest 2026 general election from Dhanusha 4.","In the 2026 general election, he won from Dhanusha 4 with 48,270 votes, defeating Mahendra Yadav of the Nepali Congress, former minister and Raghubir Mahaseth, seating MP and former deputy prime minister of the CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"27 April 1974","date":"1974-04-27"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138792906#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Bateshwar, Dhanusa","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60761264"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138792906#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138792906#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138792906#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Rastriya Swatantra Party","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112895056","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/rastriya-swatantra-party"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138792906#P102"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj_Kishor_Mahato","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138792906"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Raj Kishor Mahato born?","a":"Raj Kishor Mahato was born on 27 April 1974 in Bateshwar, Dhanusa."}],"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":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/raj-kishor-mahato-9bd5fc6a94.jpg","width":500,"height":584,"license":"CC0","credit":"Madeshi Brahman","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raj_Kishore_mahato_dhansuha_mp_Nepal.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Raj Kishor Mahato","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj_Kishor_Mahato","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q138792906","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138792906","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Raj Kishore mahato dhansuha mp Nepal.jpg by Madeshi Brahman (CC0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raj_Kishore_mahato_dhansuha_mp_Nepal.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 Raj Kishor Mahato, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Raj Kishore mahato dhansuha mp Nepal.jpg — Madeshi Brahman, CC0.","cite":"\"Raj Kishor Mahato\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/raj-kishor-mahato. Retrieved 9 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T15:28:16Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-09","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/raj-kishor-mahato","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/raj-kishor-mahato","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/raj-kishor-mahato?lang=ne"}}