Background
Lal Bahadur Basnet was born to Lieutenant (honorary) Prem Bahadur Basnett and Narbada Devi at Nazitam, Sang in East Sikkim.
Lal Bahadur Basnet was born to Lieutenant (honorary) Prem Bahadur Basnett and Narbada Devi at Nazitam, Sang in East Sikkim.
Much cr for the victory goes to Basnett for his political stalwartness. His party was active in the pro-democracy movement in the kingdom of Sikkim. After victory in the election of 1979, he was elected as the deputy speaker of the Sikkim Legislative Assembly.
Basnett joined the Sikkim National Congress, a political party headed by Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Kazi appointed as Joint Secretary of the Party. Because of his divergent political views with Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Kazi he resigned from the Sikkim National Congress and founded the Sikkim Janata Party in 1969.
