Bidya Bhattarai

{{short description|Nepali politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_suffix = MP

| name = Bidya Bhattarai

| image = Bidya Bhattrai.jpg

| caption =

| native_name = विद्या भट्टराई

| office = Minister of Education, Science and Technology

| termstart = 15 July 2024

| termend = 22 April 2025

| president = Ram Chandra Poudel

| primeminister = KP Sharma Oli

| predecessor = Sumana Shrestha

| successor = Raghuji Pant

| office1 = Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha

| term_start1 = 17 December 2019

| term_end1 =

| predecessor1 = Rabindra Prasad Adhikari

| successor1 =

| constituency1 = Kaski 2

| birth_place = Chabahil, Kathmandu

| party = CPN (UML)

| nationality = Nepali

| spouse = Rabindra Prasad Adhikari

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|10|30}}{{Cite book |url=https://hr.parliament.gov.np/uploads/attachments/z3qljvte6vwen2cy.pdf |title=संघीय संसद सदस्य, २०७४ परिचयात्मक पुस्तिका |publisher=Federal Parliament Secretariat |year=2021 |location=Nepal |pages=270 |language=ne |trans-title=Federal Parliament Members 2017 Introduction Booklet}}

| children = Biraj Adhikari & Sworaj Adhikari

| parents = Hemraj Bhattarai & Bhagawati Bhattarai

}}

Bidya Bhattarai{{Citation |last=Sulavxettri100 |title=English: Bidya Bhattarai |date=2022-08-12 |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bidya_Bhattarai.jpg |access-date=2022-08-12}} (also Bidhya Bhattarai) is a Nepali politician and the past Minister of Education, Science and Technology of Nepal.{{Cite web |title=Prime Minister Oli forms 22-member Cabinet |url=https://kathmandupost.com/national/2024/07/15/prime-minister-oli-forms-22-member-cabinet |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=kathmandupost.com |language=English}}{{Cite web |title=These are the 21 new ministers of the Oli-led government |url=https://english.khabarhub.com/2024/15/365561/ |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=Khabarhub |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Republica |title=Here is the list of Oli-led Cabinet |url=http://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/157380/ |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=My Republica |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/late-minister-adhikaris-wife-wins-landslide-victory/|title=Late minister Adhikari's wife wins landslide victory|date=2019-12-02|website=The Himalayan Times|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-12}}{{Cite web|url=https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/80672/|title=NCP's Bhattarai emerged victorious in Kaski constituency-2|last=RSS|website=My Republica|language=en|access-date=2019-12-12}} She was re-elected in 2022 from the same constituency. Due to failure to pass the School Education Bill, she gave her resignation as Minister of Education, Science and Technology on 21st April 2025 in the midst of weeks-long (started on 2nd April 2025) protests by community school teachers demanding passage of the School Education Bill.