Bimalendra Nidhi

Personal life Born to Senior Nepali Congress Leader Mahendra Narayan Nidhi and Prem Sagari Nidhi, Bimalendra Nidhi is the second son in the family. Nidhi family are residents of Nagrain Municipality, Dhanusha.

Political career Nidhi meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi; August 2016. Bimalendra Nidhi joined student politics at the age of 14, after witnessing the arrest of his father. He is a former president of the Nepal Students Union(NSU), the student wing of Nepali Congress Party.

He is a former General Secretary of Nepali Congress (Democratic) Party, a break-away faction of the Nepali Congress Party, later assuming the same post after the two parties merged after the movement, until 2009.

He has served twice as the Minister for General Administration, once as the Minister for Education and Sports, as well as, the Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport. He served as Deputy Prime-Minister of Nepal in Puspa Kamal Dahal. Nidhi with Minister Ram Saroj Yadav, MP Smriti Narayan Chaudhary, former Mayor of Janakpur Bajrang Shah in a program at his constituencyNidhi was an elected twice as member to the Constituent Assembly from Dhanusha 3. He also served as member of House of Representatives from 1994 to 2008 as representative from Dhanusha 4.

Nidhi fielded candidacy for the post of party president in the 14th general convention of Nepali Congress. He was able to garner only 5.3% of the votes opening the way for second round of election as Deuba who obtained 48% votes and was unable to cross 50% mark even after joining hands with leader Krishna Prasad Sitaula. Later, Nidhi agreed to support Deuba.

In the 2022 Nepalese general election, he chose to stand as a candidate for the House of Representatives from Proportional Representation list fearing loss in the upcoming elections from his hometown district. He was elected as a member of House of Representatives from PR list of Nepali Congress on 14 December 2022.

In February 2023, he assisted in the gifting of two Shaligram stones from the Government of Nepal to the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra, the stones would be used for the construction of the child form of the Hindu God Rama to be established in the Ram Mandir, Ayodhya.

Electoral history