# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shanta-kumar
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:16:22.297Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shanta-kumar"
name: "Shanta Kumar"
slug: "shanta-kumar"
description: "Shanta Kumar Sharma is an Indian politician who was the 3rd Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh and a Union Minister in the Government of India. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was elected to the 9th Lok Sabha from Kangra constituency in 1989. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998, 1999 and 2014 from the same constituency. He has written a number of books. He is the first and only person not of a Rajput background who has served as the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh."
tagline: "Indian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shanta_Kumar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1934-09-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump