Bidya Bhattarai

Bidya Bhattarai (also Bidhya Bhattarai) is a Nepali politician and the current Minister of Education, Science and Technology of Nepal. Since 2019, she has held the position of 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. She was re-elected in 2022 from the same constituency.