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.

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