| Honorific Suffix: | MP |
| Bidya Bhattarai | |
| Native Name: | विद्या भट्टराई |
| Office: | Minister of Education, Science and Technology |
| Termstart: | 15 July 2024 |
| President: | Ram Chandra Poudel |
| Primeminister: | KP Sharma Oli |
| Predecessor: | Sumana Shrestha |
| Office1: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha |
| Term Start1: | 17 December 2019 |
| Predecessor1: | Rabindra Prasad Adhikari |
| Constituency1: | Kaski 2 |
| Birth Place: | Chabahil, Kathmandu |
| Party: | CPN (UML) |
| Nationality: | Nepali |
| Spouse: | Rabindra Prasad Adhikari |
| Birth Date: | 30 October 1972[1] |
| Children: | Biraj Adhikari & Sworaj Adhikari |
| Parents: | Hemraj Bhattarai & Bhagawati Bhattarai |
Bidya Bhattarai (also Bidhya Bhattarai) is a Nepali politician and the current Minister of Education, Science and Technology of Nepal.[2] [3] [4] 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.[5] [6] She was re-elected in 2022 from the same constituency.