Bidya Devi Bhandari is a Nepali politician. In 2015, he made headlines when he was elected as the second president of Nepal. After that, she became the first woman to hold the post of President of Nepal. Prior to that, she was the Minister of Defense and Minister of Environment and Population, Vice-Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) and Chairman of the Nepal Women’s Association. Bidya Devi Bhandari was the Defense Minister of Nepal from 2009 to 2011. In 1997, he was the Minister of Environment and Population.
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Bidya Devi Bhandari was born on Tuesday 19 June 1961 (age 61; as of 2022) in Mane Bhanjiang, Bhojpuri, Kingdom of Nepal (present-day Mane Bhanjiang, Ramprasadrai RM, Bhojpuri, Province No. 1, Republic of Nepal). His zodiac sign is Gemini. He completed his primary schooling at Behereshwar Primary School in Nepal. In 1979, he obtained his SLC (School Leaving Certificate) from Bidhyodaya Vocational High School, Nepal. In 1980, he completed his BA in Humanities from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. According to Bidya Devi Bhandari, she was the first person in her family to complete matriculation. In a conversation with the media, he revealed that his grandfather encouraged his parents to educate him. She said,
I became a role model for the women in my village and this encouraged other parents to send their daughters to school.”
His grandfather and uncles reportedly started teaching him political skills at the age of seven. His grandfather and uncles were associated with Nepal Students Union and ANNFSU as its members. Once, in a conversation with the media house, he recalled that in his childhood he felt very bad for the poor and often wanted to eradicate this inequality from the country. he told
I felt very bad when I saw someone asking for money, medicine or old clothes. I wondered why they were so poor and what was the reason for this inequality.”
Bidya Devi Bhandari joined the Coordinating Committee (founded in 1975) when she was in the eighth grade. Soon after joining this committee, the committee leader assigned him the responsibility of distributing party pamphlets in the villages to warn the local landlords.
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′4″
Hair color: black
Eye Color: Black
family
parents and siblings
Bidya Devi’s grandfather’s name is Tilak Bahadur Pandey. His grandfather was a social worker as well as the Pradhan Pancha of his village. His father’s name is Ram Bahadur Pandey and he was the principal of a local high school in Nepal. His mother’s name is Mithila Pandey. He has two brothers and one of his brothers name is Degendra Pandey.
Bidya Devi Bhandari with her brother
His cousin, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, is a prominent Nepalese politician.
Bidya Devi Bhandari’s cousin Gyanendra Bahadur Karki
husband and children
In 1982, Bidya Devi Bhandar married Madan Bhandar, who was a famous Nepali politician. Bidya Devi and Madan Bhandari met twice before they got married, once in 1979 and again in 1980 in Bhojpuri when they attended political party meetings.
Old picture of Bidya Devi Bhandari with her husband
Madan Bhandari died on 16 May 1993 in a car accident while he was on his way from Pokhran to Chitwan along with his three companions to attend a party meeting. According to some media reports, his car mysteriously plunged into the Trishul River, killing all the passengers in the car; However, the car driver (Amar Lama) managed to save himself. Three days after the incident, Madan Bhandar’s body was found by the police on the banks of the Narayan River. Ten years later, the driver was killed under mysterious circumstances after an accident. The incident fueled conspiracy theories in Nepal at the time.
Provision of Madan Bhandar in Nepal
Once, in an interview to a media house, Bidya Devi Bhandari revealed that Madan Bhandari’s personality, political ideologies and leadership qualities impressed her so much that she convinced him to marry her. He also added in the same discussion that it wasn’t love at first sight. he told
It wasn’t love at first sight. I was nervous about being in front of him. I was moved by his sharpness and ability to present various issues in depth. I was sure that he was a different person, but I didn’t know that he would one day hold the post of General Secretary of CPN (UML).”
Bidya Devi Bhandari with her husband and two daughters
The couple has two daughters named Usha Kiran Bhandari and Nisha Kusum Bhandari. According to some media reports, one of his daughters is a medical practitioner and the other is working as a party worker in Nepali political party CPN (UML).
President Bidya Devi Bhandari talks to her daughters as she returns from a temple in the Kathmandu Valley on Maha Ashtami Day in 2016.
Caste
Bidya Devi Bhandari belongs to Brahmin community.
Career
Bidya Devi Bhandari joined politics in 1978 when she started working as an activist in CPN’s Youth League (ML) in Bhojpuri. In 1979, he started working in the Eastern Zone Committee of ANNFSU as its head and worked until 1987.
Bidya Devi Bhandari on her appointment as Minister in Nepal
Bidya Devi Bhandari started working as a member of CPN (ML) in 1980. He was elected a student union leader while studying at Mahendra Morang Adarsha Multiple Campus. She started working in the Women’s Wing of GEFONT as its Chairperson in 1993. In 1997, he started working as a member of the Central Committee of CPN (UML). Shortly after her husband’s death, Bidya Devi Bhandari was appointed as the sitting member of Kathmandu-1 constituency in the January 1994 by-election, defeating her opponent and former Prime Minister of Nepal, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai. In the same year, he defeated his opponent and Speaker of the House Daman Nath Dungana in the Kathmandu-2 constituency general election. After that Bidya Devi Bhandari was appointed as Minister of Environment and Population of Nepal.
Bidya Devi Bhandari during a political rally
Bidya Devi Bhandari again contested the general election from Kathmandu-2 Constituency in 1999 and won. He participated in the Constituent Assembly elections in 2008 and was defeated. However, following a proportional election system by members of his party, he was appointed as the Defense Minister in the Cabinet of the Prime Minister of Nepal, Madhav Kumar Nepal. The same procedure was followed in the 2013 elections, when he was re-elected under the proportional electoral system. Bidya Devi Bhandari was then re-elected as the Vice-Chairman of the CPN (UML) in the Eighth General Convention of the party organized at Butwal. He came into limelight during this time as a confidante of his party chairman and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.
Bidya Devi Bhandari in her office
Bidya Devi Bhandari was elected as the President of Nepal in an indirect election held in the Parliament of Nepal on 28 October 2015. He won the election after defeating Nepali Congress leader Kul Bahadur Gurung who got 214 votes while Bidya Bhandari got 327 votes. She became the first woman to head the state as president. In 2018, Bidya Devi Bhandari was re-elected as the President of Nepal and in this election she defeated her rival and Congress leader Kumari Laxmi Rai.
Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi along with BIMSTEC leaders calls on the President of Nepal, Mrs. Bidya Devi Bhandar, in Kathmandu, Nepal on August 30, 2018.
confrontations
- Political Guerrilla Position: Bidya Devi Bhandari is often accused by several members of the opposition party in Nepal of abusing her position after she was elected as the President of Nepal. He was accused in 2017 of delaying the formation of a government shortly after the 2017 legislative elections. He was accused of carrying out the election decree of the National Assembly.
- Women’s Rights: Bidya Devi Bhandari introduced the controversial ‘Property Bill’ to the Nepali Parliament in 2016 and won the support of many women members of the Nepali Parliament. Through this bill, she fought for women’s rights to inherit their parents’ property. In the bill, he noted
Through this bill, for the first time in Nepal’s history, women have been given the right to succeed to their parental property and the right to obtain citizenship for their child in the mother’s name.”
- In 2021, the Supreme Court of Nepal rejected the Citizenship Ordinance passed under the leadership of KP Sharma Oli. However, this decree was approved by Bidya Devi Bhandar. Later, he refused to approve the same ordinance when the majority and Deuba’s cabinet approved it.
- Dissolution of the Houses of Parliament: In 2021, Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolved the House of Representatives against the Constitution of Nepal. Accordingly, he was accused of abusing his position by approving the decisions of the Cabinet of Ministers. Sher Bahadur Deuba received a majority of votes from the member parliaments who jointly signed him as the Prime Minister of Nepal; However, Bidya Bhandari did not approve of his appointment as the Prime Minister of Nepal and started supporting the KP Sharma Oli-led government by dissolving the Parliament. Later, a majority of the 146-member parliament challenged its decision in the Supreme Court of Nepal.
President Bidya Bhandari speaks to the media in 2018 after registering her candidacy for a second term
- On 12 July 2021, his decision to dissolve parliament was declared illegal by the Supreme Court of Nepal, and the judgment also stated that under Article 76, Clause 5 of the Constitution of Nepal, Deuba would be appointed as the next Prime Minister of Nepal. The Supreme Court also accused Bhandari of taking steps against Nepal’s constitution. On 13 July 2021, Bidya Devi Bhandari appointed Deuba as the Prime Minister of Nepal. He reportedly did not follow the rule of law or constitutional article in appointing Deuba as Nepal’s prime minister and many opposition party leaders accused him of forgetting his boundaries. Eventually, Deuba became the Prime Minister of Nepal after several hiatuses.
Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba in 2021
Facts/Trivia
- In 2016, the famous global magazine Bidya Devi Bhandari ranked 52nd in the list of 100 most influential women in the world.
- Bidya Bhandari met Danish economist and environmentalist Inger Andersen in June 2017 at the International Union for Conservation of Nature in Gland, Switzerland, where they discussed issues related to nature conservation and sustainable development in Nepal and had some cooperation.
Bidya Devi with General Director Inger Andersen
- Bidya Bhandari is an enthusiastic environmentalist who frequently organizes many environmental awareness campaigns in Nepal. She often works on women’s rights issues in Nepal.
- According to reports, Bidya Devi Bhandari is the political mastermind of UML leader K.P. Oli, who taught him political skills when he went into politics. KP Oli is known for being the most powerful Prime Minister of Nepal during his tenure. According to Bidya Devi Bhandari, she was advised by KP Oli on all political matters. He was the one who helped him get appointed as Defense Minister of Nepal in the Madhav Nepal government in 2009 and President in 2015.
Bidya Devi Bhandari with KP Oli in a cabinet meeting
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