Bidya_Bhattarai

Bidya Bhattarai

Bidya Bhattarai

Nepali politician

Bidya Bhattarai[2] (also Bidhya Bhattarai) is a Nepali politician and 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 premature 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.[3][4] She was re-elected in 2022 from the same constituency.

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References

  1. [1]
    संघीय संसद सदस्य, २०७४ परिचयात्मक पुस्तिका [Federal Parliament Members 2017 Introduction Booklet] (PDF) (in Nepali). Nepal: Federal Parliament Secretariat. 2021. p. 270.
  2. [2]
    Sulavxettri100 (2022-08-12), English: Bidya Bhattarai, retrieved 2022-08-12{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. [3]
    "Late minister Adhikari's wife wins landslide victory". The Himalayan Times. 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  4. [4]
    RSS. "NCP's Bhattarai emerged victorious in Kaski constituency-2". My Republica. Retrieved 2019-12-12.


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