22 Facts About 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.

Yogesh Bhattarai has previously served as Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation.

Yogesh Bhattarai has a master's degree in Sociology and Anthropology from Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

Yogesh Bhattarai joined the then Nepal Community Party as Member in 1985.

Yogesh Bhattarai was elected as a Member of the Federal Parliament of Nepal and a Standing Committee Member of NCP in 2017 and 2019 respectively.

Yogesh Bhattarai has been serving as Minister of Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation since 31 July 2019.

Yogesh Bhattarai was elected as campus chairman of the Mahendra Multiple campus Free Student Union.

Yogesh Bhattarai became president of All Nepal National Free Students Union, the student wing of CPN-UML in 1995.

Yogesh Bhattarai became a central committee member of CPN-UML in 2009 after the eighth general convention and party secretary after the ninth general convention in 2014.

Yogesh Bhattarai is currently secretary of Communist Party of Nepal.

Yogesh Bhattarai, Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Government of Nepal, was born in 1966 in Taplejung, Nepal.

Yogesh Bhattarai has a master's degree in Sociology and Anthropology from Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

Yogesh Bhattarai joined the then Nepal Community Party as Member in 1985.

Yogesh Bhattarai was elected as a Member of the Federal Parliament of Nepal and a Standing Committee Member of NCP in 2017 and 2019 respectively.

Yogesh Bhattarai has been serving as Minister of Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation since 31 July 2019.

In September 2019, a video of passengers protesting inside an airplane went viral, after Yogesh Bhattarai held the scheduled passenger flight from departing at Nepalgunj Airport.

The protestors were initially claiming that Yogesh Bhattarai had boarded the flight nearly an hour late but the civil aviation officials at Nepalgunj airport later verified that the minister had caused the delay of only 15 minutes.

Yogesh Bhattarai apologized via Twitter for the incident saying that it was not deliberate and the program he attended in Tikapur lasted longer than expected.

Yogesh Bhattarai wrote a Facebook status claiming that they had conducted a silent rally and the inauguration ceremony was a grand success.

In February 2020, Tourism Minister Yogesh Bhattarai extended a welcoming invitation to international travelers to be part of Visit Nepal 2020 without any concern of presence of the coronavirus in Nepal.

Yogesh Bhattarai highlighted Nepal as a COVID-free region as Nepal had no active cases by then.

Yogesh Bhattarai was born on 6 September 1966 at Sangu, Taplejung district to father Bhim Lal Bhattarai and mother Mahendra Devi Bhattarai.