Kishore Singh Rathore | |
Native Name: | किशोरसिंह राठोर |
Office: | Deputy General Secretary of Nepali Congress |
Term Start: | 17 December 2021 |
Predecessor: | Prakash Sharan Mahat |
President: | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
Office1: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha |
Term Start1: | 22 December 2022 |
Constituency1: | Banke 3 |
Predecessor1: | Nanda Lal Roka Chhetri |
Office2: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha for Nepali Congress party list |
Term Start2: | 4 March 2018 |
Term End2: | 18 September 2022 |
Party: | Nepali Congress |
Nationality: | Nepali |
Birth Place: | Bardiya, Lumbini Province, Nepal |
Alma Mater: | Tribhuwan University |
Birth Date: | 27 April 1969[1] |
Father: | Mahendra Bahadur Singh |
Mother: | Indira Singh |
Honorific Suffix: | MP |
Honorific Prefix: | Honourable |
Kishore Singh Rathore (born 27 April 1969) is a Nepali politician and Deputy general secretary of Nepali Congress. Rathore is also a member of the House of Representatives elected under the proportional representation system from Nepali Congress filling the reserved seat for Khas-Arya group.[2] He is also a member of the House Finance Committee.[3] In the shadow cabinet of Nepali Congress, he was the coordinator of the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs.[4]
He joined politics as a student in 1984, from Nepal Student Union, the student wing of Nepali Congress. He became the Free Student Union secretary and then Chairman while he was in Trichandra College. He went on to become secretary of Nepal Student Union, and then chairman for six years. He was also the founding chair of FSU Forum. Later, he went on to become central member of Nepali Congress.
He was a candidate from Bardiya-4 for Nepali Congress, in the Second constituent assembly election of 2013.
He was born on 27 April 1969 to Mahendra Bahadur Singh and Indira Singh in Wadagaun, Salyan.[5] His family later moved to the Terai and currently lives in Rajapur, Bardiya.[5] He has a son and a daughter.[5]