Career
He hails from a lowmiddle class peasant family of Sindhupalchok District, Nepal. He is the spokesperson of Unified CPN (Maoist). Sapkota had served as a Minister for Information and Communication from May to July 2011.
Sapkota was a Political Bureau member before party decides to keep only "Chairman" in Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) from 2012.
He already served the post of in-charge of Tamshiling State committee of the party. He was elected from Sindhupalchok constituency no-2 in the first-past-the-post system.
Because of his professional background he is widely addressed as "Agni sir" all over the country. Agni Sapkota started his political life in 1975 as a student activist.
Then he became a candidate of House of Representative.
Unfortunately, he was not elected. Sapkota led several party committees and battles during the 10-year-long people"s war. He was elected politburo member from the second national conference held in February 2001.
Agni Sapkota served as a Minister for Information and Communication for very short time.
During his very short term as a Minister of Information and Communication, a frequency policy was formulated as well as frequency distribution system was established as the state’s resources. Moreover, as the Communications Minister, Sapkota ensured budged for different facilities to journalists including life insurance and capacity building trainings of journalists as a part of role of the state for the promotion and development of the Press.