Yogesh Bhattarai

Yogesh Bhattarai () is a Nepali politician currently serving as a member of Parliament in the House of Representatives from Taplejung constituency since 2017. Bhattarai is currently in his second term as secretary of CPN-UML. He has previously also served as Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation.

Bhattarai was born in 1966 in Taplejung, Nepal. He has a master's degree in Sociology and Anthropology from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He joined the then Nepal Community Party (Unified Marxist and Leninist) as Member in 1985. Elected in 1995 as President of the All Nepal National Free Student Union (ANNFSU), he served as Secretary of CPN-UML, Head of the Publicity Department, and Member of the Party's Standing Committee from 2015 to 2018. He was elected as a Member of the Federal Parliament of Nepal and a Standing Committee Member of NCP in 2017 and 2019 respectively. He has been serving as Minister of Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation since 31 July 2019.

In April 2015, Bhattarai criticised the then UCPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, while in February 2017, he urged then Prime Minister Dahal to step down over his failure in conducting the local elections. After the merger of CPN-UML and UCPN (Maoist), he called on both KP Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal to retire from active politics. Provided by Wikipedia