Chitra Lekha Yadav

Chitra Lekha Yadav
चित्रलेखा यादव
Minister for Education of Nepal
In office
25 February 2014 – 12 October 2015
President Ram Baran Yadav
Prime Minister Sushil Koirala
Vice President Paramananda Jha
Succeeded by Giriraj Mani Pokharel
Deputy Speaker of Pratinidhi Sabha & Interim Legislature
In office
May 1999 – April 2008
Preceded by Lila Shrestha Subba
Succeeded by Shiva Maya Tumbahamphe
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha for
Nepali Congress party list
In office
4 March 2018 – 18 September 2022
Member of Constituent Assembly for
Nepali Congress party list
In office
21 January 2014 – 13 October 2017
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
In office
May 1999 – May 2002
Preceded by Narendra Raj Pokharel
Succeeded by Raj Lal Yadav
Constituency Siraha 2
Personal details
Born 28 May 1965
Siraha District
Nationality Nepali
Political party Nepali Congress

Chitra Lekha Yadav (Nepali: चित्र लेखा यादव), a member of Nepali Congress, assumed the post of the Minister of Education of Nepal on 25 February 2014 under Sushil Koirala-led government.

Political career

Chitra Lekha Yadav was elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the 1999 election on behalf of the Nepali Congress. Yadav became its deputy chairman. 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.