# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sher-dhan-rai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:40:07.647Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sher-dhan-rai"
name: "Sher Dhan Rai"
slug: "sher-dhan-rai"
description: "Sher Dhan Rai is a Nepalese politician and former Chief Minister of Koshi Province, a province in eastern part of Nepal. He was elected parliamentary party leader of CPN (UML), the largest party in the provincial assembly, on 9 February 2018. Rai was subsequently appointed chief minister on 14 February 2018. He was previously elected to the 2nd Nepalese Constituent Assembly, winning the Bhojpur–2 seat for the Communist Party of Nepal. Rai also served as a cabinet minister in the Government of Nepal, and was appointed Minister of Information and Communications in the first Oli cabinet."
tagline: "Nepalese politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sherdhan_Rai.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1971-02-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.870410666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "शेरधन राई"
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    title: "शेरधन राई"
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    title: "Sher Dhan Rai"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sher_Dhan_Rai"
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  - url: "https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%88"
    title: "शेरधन राई"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%88"
    title: "शेरधन राई"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17476837"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump