Tilak Ram Sharma ( ne, तिलक राम शर्मा; born 8 June 1968) is a Nepali politician who has served as a member of the

Lumbini Provincial Assembly The Provincial Assembly of Lumbini Province also known as the Lumbini Pradesh Sabha, (Nepali: लुम्बिनी प्रदेश सभा) is a unicameral governing and law making body of Lumbini Province, one of the 7 provinces in Nep ...

since 2017. A member of the

Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) (), abbreviated CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN-Maoist Centre, CPN Maoist Centre, or CPN (MC), is the third largest political party in Nepal. It was founded in 1994 after breaking away from the Communist P ...

, he represents the Bardiya 1(B) constituency. Since 2021, Sharma has also been the provincial Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications. Sharma was elected to the provincial assembly following the

2017 Nepalese provincial elections Provincial assembly elections were held in Nepal on 26 November and 7 December 2017 along with the general election. 330 seats in the seven newly created provincial assemblies were elected by first-past-the-post voting and 220 by proportional ...

. He defeated

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candidate

Mangal Prasad Tharu Mangal Prasad Tharu ( ne, मंगल प्रसाद थारु) is a Nepalese politician. He was elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the 1999 election on behalf of the Nepali Congress. In the 2017 Nepalese provincial elections, Tharu ran ...

, receiving 23,392 votes compared to Tharu's 20,841. During his tenure as minister, Sharma has spoken in favor of

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. In June 2022, Sharma served as the leader of a three-person government body formed to investigate provincial Minister of Health Bimala Kumari Khatri, who was accused of assaulting the wife and daughter of another politician.

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