Rabindra Prasad Adhikari, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Nepalese politician
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Place of Birth: Bharat Pokhari, Western Region, Nepal
About Rabindra Prasad Adhikari
- Rabindra Prasad Adhikari (4 May 1969 – 27 February 2019) was a Nepali politician and three time parliamentarian, belonging to the Nepal Communist Party.
- He was Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation from 16 March 2018 until his death in a helicopter crash.
- 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 main opposition Nepali Congress got 15,991.
- Likewise, Socialist Party's Dharma Raj Gurung got 1,922 votes.
- He authored the books Constituent Assembly, Democracy and Re-structuring.
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