Binita Kathayat
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Binita Kathayat | |
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बिनिता कठायत | |
| Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha | |
| Assumed office 22 December 2022 | |
| President | Bidya Devi Bhandari |
| Constituency | Party List |
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| Party | Rastriya Swatantra Party |
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Binita Kathayat is a Nepalese media figure and politician, belonging to the Rastriya Swatantra Party. She is currently serving as a member of the 2nd Federal Parliament of Nepal. In the 2022 Nepalese general election she was elected as a proportional representative for Khas Arya cluster from rural area.[1][2][3] Before being elected to the Federal Parliament of Nepal, she worked at Galaxy 4K Television.[4]
Kathayat was born in 2052 BS (1995-1996) in Khalanga Bazar in Chandannath municipality of Jumla District of Karnali Province in Nepal. She belongs to a political family. Her grandfather Narayan Singh Kathayat was a local development officer.
She studied at Seto Bangla School in Kathmandu till ninth grade. She received her tenth grade School Leaving Certificate from a school in Jumla. Under an Indian government scholarship, she studied Political Science in her plus–two level from Dehradun in India. She then received a Diploma in Film Making from Zee Institute of Media Arts in Mumbai.[5]
Career in Media
After completing her diploma, she returned to Nepal to work in the film industry. She worked an assistant director for the movies Loot 2 and Hostel Returns. She also worked as a costume stylist for Chapali Height 2 and Chiso Manchhe.
She also worked as a costume stylist for various television programmes. She produced the television programme Parkhal Bahirako Nepal for Galaxy 4K TV.[5]