Janardan Sharma

Honourable
Janardan Sharma
Honourable Janardan Sharma
जनार्दन शर्मा
	Sharma in 2024
Finance Minister of Nepal
	In office; 13 July 2022 – 26 December 2022
President	Bidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime Minister	Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Succeeded by	Bishnu Poudel
Minister for Home Affairs
	In office; 7 June 2017 – 17 October 2017
Prime Minister	Sher Bahadur Deuba
Preceded by	Bimalendra Nidhi
Succeeded by	Sher Bahadur Deuba
Minister for Energy
	In office; 14 August 2016 – 31 May 2017
Prime Minister	Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Succeeded by	Mahendra Bahadur Shahi
Minister for Peace and Reconstruction
	In office; 31 August 2008 – May 2009
Prime Minister	Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Member of Parliament, Pranitidhi Sabha
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 4 March 2018
Preceded by	Constituency established
Constituency	Western Rukum 1
Member of Constituent Assembly
	In office; 28 May 2008 – 14 October 2017
Preceded by	Tirtha Gautam
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	Rukum 2
Personal details
Born	25 April 1963; Rukum, Nepal
Party	Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party
Other political; affiliations	Nepal Communist Party (2018-2021) ; CPN (Maoist Centre) (1995-2018, 2021 - present)
Website	Official website

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Janardan Sharma Prabhakar (Nepali: जनार्दन शर्मा प्रभाकर) is a Nepalese politician and former Finance and Home Minister of Nepal. Sharma currently leads Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party. He is widely remembered for his tenure as Energy minister when he ended loadshedding, which had been occurring for up to 18 hours per day.

A four-time parliamentarian and joint general secretary of CPN (Maoist Centre), Sharma was the single leader to have been elected from same constituency for four consecutive terms within CPN (Maoist Centre) till he announced his own Progressive Campaign, Nepal under support of leaders including former minister Sudan Kirati and Ram Karki. Sharma was a leader of the CPN (Maoist Centre) during the insurgency period and served as one of the 4 deputy commanders of the Nepali People's Liberation Army.