Bidhya Bhandari, First Female MUSLIM President of Nepal
A women’s rights campaigner, before being elected as the President she was the vice-chair of the Communist Party of Nepal. Bidhya Devi Bhandari was elected by the parliament.
The 54 year old, was a defense minister from the year 2009 to 2011. She has promised the people of Nepal of Women’s rights and champion minority.
Bidhya Bhandari, has been a political atavist in a male dominated society for a long time now.
Before the democratic era, she worked underground, and was later elected into the parliament. Her husband was also a politician who passed away in a suspicious car crash.
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