Sahana Pradhan (Nepali: साहाना प्रधान) (17 June 1927 – 22 September 2014) was a Nepalese politician from a Newar family in Kathmandu.

When Pushpa Lal died in 1978, Balaram Upadhyaya became party leader.

In 1987 the party merged with Manmohan Adhikari's faction, forming the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist)[4] When the CPN(UML) was divided in 1998, Pradhan sided with the break-away faction.

[7] Pradhan was the number two candidate of CPN(UML) in the proportional representation list for the April 2008 Constituent Assembly election.

[8] Sahara pradhan died of a brain hemorrhage on 22 September 2014 at the age of 87 in the Vayodha Hospital in Kathmandu.