Shankar Pokharel

{{short description|Nepali politician}}

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| name = Shankar Pokhrel

| native_name = शंकर पोख्रेल

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| office = 1st Chief Minister of Lumbini Province

| term_start = 15 February 2018

| term_end = 11 August 2021

| governor = * Uma Kant Jha

• Dharmanath Yadav
• Amik Sherchan

| successor = Kul Prasad KC

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| office2 = Minister of Information and Communications (Nepal)

| termstart2 = 25 May 2009

| termend2 = 6 February 2011

| primeminister2 = Madhav Kumar Nepal

| president2 = Ram Baran Yadav

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| office6 = Provincial Assembly Member of Lumbini Province

| term_start6 = 2017

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| constituency6 = Dang Provincial Assembly 2(A)

| party = Communist Party of Nepal (CPN)- Unified Marxist Leninist (UML)

| spouse = Sujita Shakya

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|2|27}}

| birth_place = Tulsipur, Dang

| parents = *Keshav Raj Sharma (Father)

• Tilka Devi (Mother)

| nationality = Nepalese

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Shankar Pokhrel ({{langx|ne|शंकर पोखरेल}}) (born 1964) is the former Chief Minister of Lumbini Province.{{Cite web|title=लुम्बिनीका मुख्यमन्त्री पोखरेलले दिए राजीनामा|url=https://ekantipur.com/news/2021/08/11/162866684325425128.html|access-date=2021-08-11|website=ekantipur.com|language=ne}} He was elected as the central secretary of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) from 1998 to 2008.{{cite news|author=Pradhan, Tika R.|date=2014-06-17|title=UML getting ready for high tech general convention|work=The Himalayan Times|url=http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=UML+getting+ready+for+high-tech++general+convention&NewsID=418474#.U6eKiF2t-o8|url-status=dead|accessdate=2014-06-23|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402200800/http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=UML+getting+ready+for+high-tech++general+convention&NewsID=418474#.U6eKiF2t-o8|archivedate=2015-04-02}}