en Hari Shankar Mishra

Honourable
**Hari Shankar Mishra**
Honourable Hari Shankar Mishra
हरि शंकर मिश्र
4th Governor of Madhesh Province
	In office; 17 August 2021 – 15 March 2024
President	Ram Chandra Poudel Bidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime Minister	Pushpa Kamal Dahal Sher Bahadur Deuba
Chief Minister	Saroj Kumar Yadav Lalbabu Raut
Preceded by	Rajesh Jha
Succeeded by	Sumitra Bhandari
Member of House of Representatives
	In office; 1991–1994
Constituency	Mahottari 2
Personal details
Citizenship	Nepali
Nationality	Nepali
Political party	Nepali Congress(?-2021)
Parent	Ram Narayan Mishra (father);
Residence(s)	Pipra, Mahottari

Hari Shankar Mishra is the current Governor of Madhesh Province.^[1]^[2] He was appointed Governor, as per the Article 163 (2) of the Constitution of Nepal by the President Bidya Devi Bhandari on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers of the Government of Nepal on 17 August 2021.^[3] He is a former member of House of representatives.

Political life

Before being appointed Governor, he was member of the Nepali Congress party. He was elected to the House of representatives from Mahottari-2 in the 1991 Nepalese general election with a margin of 4,000 votes.^[4]

Personal life

Mishra's father, Ram Narayan Mishra, was one of the founders of the Nepali Congress, and served as Minister for Industry and Commerce in the B.P. Koirala cabinet which was elected in 1959 as the first elected government of Nepal.^[5] Mishra's uncle, Bhadrakali Mishra, was also a politician, who was a government minister in the 1950s.^[6]