Name: Late Rabindra Prasad Adhikari

Date of Birth: 5 May 1969 

Died: 27 February 2019, Taplejung 

Political Party: Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) 

Education: Master's in Business Administration, TU, Nepal 

Parents: Indra Prasad Adhikari & Laxmi Adhikari 

Spouse: Bidhya Bhattarai 

Website: www.rabindraadhikari.com 

Rabindra Prasad Adhikari was appointed as a Minister of Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation under Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli’s Council of Ministers on 16 February 2018 until his untimely demise in a helicopter crash in Taplejung on 27 February 2019. Born in Kaski District, Adhikari was elected from the Kaski-3 constituency, with 13,386 votes, and in the Constituent Assembly election, he was re-elected from the Kaski-3 constituency, with 15456 votes in 2013. 

He served as a Central Committee member of CPN UML and was President of the Development Committee of the Legislative Parliament of Nepal since then. He wrote books, "Constituent Assembly, Democracy and Restructuring" and "Samriddha Nepal".