Bidya Bhattarai

Bidya Bhattarai
विद्या भट्टराई
Minister of Education, Science and Technology
Assumed office
15 July 2024
PresidentRam Chandra Poudel
Prime MinisterKP Sharma Oli
Preceded bySumana Shrestha
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
Assumed office
17 December 2019
Preceded byRabindra Prasad Adhikari
ConstituencyKaski 2
Personal details
Born (1972-10-30) October 30, 1972 (age 52)[1]
Chabahil, Kathmandu
NationalityNepali
Political partyCPN (UML)
SpouseRabindra Prasad Adhikari
ChildrenBiraj Adhikari & Sworaj Adhikari
ParentHemraj Bhattarai & Bhagawati Bhattarai

Bidya Bhattarai[2] (also Bidhya Bhattarai) is a Nepali politician and the current Minister of Education, Science and Technology of Nepal.[3][4][5] Since 2019, she has been a member of the House of Representatives of the Federal Parliament of Nepal. She won the by-election of Kaski-2, a constituency that was made empty by the death of her husband, cabinet minister Rabindra Prasad Adhikari, in a helicopter crash in February 2019. She defeated her nearest rival, Khemraj Paudel of Nepali Congress, by a margin of more than 8,000 votes.[6][7] She was re-elected in 2022 from the same constituency.

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  2. ^ Sulavxettri100 (2022-08-12), English: Bidya Bhattarai, retrieved 2022-08-12{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "Prime Minister Oli forms 22-member Cabinet". kathmandupost.com. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  4. ^ "These are the 21 new ministers of the Oli-led government". Khabarhub. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  5. ^ Republica. "Here is the list of Oli-led Cabinet". My Republica. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  6. ^ "Late minister Adhikari's wife wins landslide victory". The Himalayan Times. 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  7. ^ RSS. "NCP's Bhattarai emerged victorious in Kaski constituency-2". My Republica. Retrieved 2019-12-12.