| Chitra Lekha Yadav | |
| Native Name: | चित्रलेखा यादव |
| Native Name Lang: | Maithali |
| Office: | Minister for Education of Nepal |
| Term Start: | 25 February 2014 |
| Term End: | 12 October 2015 |
| Vicepresident: | Paramananda Jha |
| President: | Ram Baran Yadav |
| Primeminister: | Sushil Koirala |
| Successor: | Giriraj Mani Pokharel |
| Office2: | Deputy Speaker of Pratinidhi Sabha & Interim Legislature |
| Term Start2: | May 1999 |
| Term End2: | April 2008 |
| Predecessor2: | Lila Shrestha Subba |
| Successor2: | Shiva Maya Tumbahamphe |
| Office3: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha for Nepali Congress party list |
| Term Start3: | 4 March 2018 |
| Term End3: | 18 September 2022 |
| Office4: | Member of Constituent Assembly for Nepali Congress party list |
| Term Start4: | 21 January 2014 |
| Term End4: | 13 October 2017 |
| Office5: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha |
| Term Start5: | May 1999 |
| Term End5: | May 2002 |
| Constituency5: | Siraha 2 |
| Predecessor5: | Narendra Raj Pokharel |
| Successor5: | Raj Lal Yadav |
| Birth Date: | 28 May 1965[1] |
| Birth Place: | Siraha District |
| Nationality: | Nepali |
| Party: | Nepali Congress |
Chitra Lekha Yadav (Nepali: चित्र लेखा यादव), a member of Nepali Congress, assumed the post of the Minister of Education of Nepalon 25 February 2014 under Sushil Koirala-led government.[2] [3]
Chitra Lekha Yadav was elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the 1999 election on behalf of the Nepali Congress.[4] Yadav became its deputy chairman.[5] Nepali Congress divided vertically to two parties, one led by former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nepali Congress (Democratic), and the other is led by Girija Prasad Koirala. After vertical split of the party, she supported Nepali Congress (Democratic) (which later reunified with NC).
Yadav is the NC candidate in the Siraha-2 constituency for the 2008 Constituent Assembly election.[6]