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Shiva Kumar Mandal

Nepalese politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ59782201 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shiva Kumar Mandal is a Nepalese politician and Minister of Supplies and serving as the Member Of House Of Representatives elected from Morang 5, Koshi Province. He is member of the Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party.

His private residence in Biratnagar was torched by protesters during the 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Shiva Kumar Mandal” as nepalese politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Shiva, Kumar and Mandal can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as nepalese politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q59782201. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2025.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Shiva Kumar Mandal”, its source revision and the description used here.
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Shiva Kumar Mandal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.