| Honorific-Prefix: | Honourable |
| Krishna Kumar Shrestha | |
| Native Name: | कृष्ण कुमार श्रेष्ठ |
| Nickname: | Kishan |
| Office1: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha |
| Term Start1: | 4 March 2018 |
| Term End1: | September 2022 |
| Constituency1: | Tanahun 1 |
| Predecessor1: | Shankar Bhandari |
| Successor1: | Ram Chandra Paudel |
| Term Start2: | 22 December 2022 |
| Constituency2: | Bara 4 |
| Predecessor2: | Ekbal Miya |
| Office: | Minister of |
| Term Start: | 8 October 2021 |
| Term End: | 27 June 2022 |
| President: | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
| Primeminister: | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
| Predecessor: | Bimal Prasad Shrivastav |
| Successor: | Sher Bahadur Kunwor |
| Birth Place: | Tanahun, Nepal |
| Party: | CPN (Unified Socialist) |
| Otherparty: | CPN (UML) |
| Nationality: | Nepali |
| Birth Date: | 22 December 1967[1] |
Krishna Kumar Shrestha is a Nepali politician belonging to CPN (Unified Socialist).
He most recently served for 8 months as Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security of Nepal in the ruling coalition government led by Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba. He is also a member of the House of Representatives of the federal parliament of Nepal.[2]
Shrestha was born on December 22, 1967, in Jamune-9 of Tanahun, to Kewal Bahadur and Les Kumari Shrestha.[3] He has an education up to proficiency certificate level.[3]
Shrestha joined politics in 1985.[3] As of 2013, he was an advisor to CPN UML, Tanahun.[3]
He was a candidate for the CPN UML in Tanahun-2 constituency in the 2013 constituent assembly election but lost to senior leader of Nepali Congress,[3] [4] Ram Chandra Paudel.[5] [3]
He was elected from Tanahun-1 constituency in the 2017 legislative election under the first-past-the-post system, as a joint candidate of the left alliance. He defeated incumbent Ram Chandra Paudel by more than 6,000 votes.[6] He received 34,492 votes to Paudel's 27,690.[7]