Rabindra Prasad Adhikari
Rabindra Prasad Adhikari (
Nepali: रबिन्द्र प्रसाद अधिकारी) (4 May 1969 – 27 February 2019) was a
Nepali politician and three-time parliamentarian, belonging to the
Nepal Communist Party (NCP). He was
Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation from 16 March 2018 until his death in a helicopter
crash in February 2019. He was the
Kaski District secretary of the party. In the
2008 Constituent Assembly election, Adhikari was elected from the Kaski-3 constituency, with 13,386 votes. In the
2013 Constituent Assembly election, he was re-elected from the Kaski-3 constituency, with 15,456 votes. In 2017, CPN-UML candidate Rabindra Adhikari won parliamentary elections from Kaski Constituency No. 2. Representing the left alliance, Adhikari secured 27,207 votes to defeat Nepali Congress candidate Dev Raj Chalise, who got 18,661 votes. After his demise, his wife
Bidya Bhattarai won Kaski Constituency-2 with a wide margin of 8,403 votes in the by-election. Bhattarai secured 24,394 votes, while her nearest contender Khem Raj Poudel from the main opposition Nepali Congress got 15,991. Socialist Party's Dharma Raj Gurung got 1,922 votes. He authored the books ''Constituent Assembly, Democracy and Re-structuring''.
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