Nepal, Dec. 3 -- Bidya Bhattarai's election as member of parliament

POKHARA, Dec 3: Bidya Bhattarai gave up politics to enable her husband late Rabindra Adhikari to actively engage himself in that calling. She quit the political scene after she got married to Adhikari in 1999.

Before tying the knot with Adhikari, who lost his life in a helicopter crash in Taplejung in February, she held various positions at the student and women's wings of the erstwhile CPN-UML.

The parliamentary seat from Kaski Constitueny-2 fell vacant after the death of Adhikari, who was minister for culture, tourism and civil aviation at the time. Senior leaders of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) then suggested to Bidya to come back into politics. But she in...