Mohan Bahadur Basnet

Mohan Bahadur Basnet (Nepali: मोहन बहादुर बस्नेत) is a Nepalese politician. He served as a member of the Pratinidhi Sabha and the 2nd Constituent Assembly from Sindhupalchok-1, having been elected in the 1999 and 2013 elections, representing Nepali Congress.^[1][2]

Honourable Mohan Bahadur Basnet MP
मोहन बहादुर बस्नेत
Mohan Bahadur Basnet in 2023
Minister of Health and Population
In office 3 May 2023 – 4 March 2024
President	Ram Chandra Poudel
Prime Minister	Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Preceded by	Padam Giri
Succeeded by	Upendra Yadav
Minister of Information and Communications
In office 26 July 2017 – 15 February 2018
President	Bidhya Devi Bhandari
Prime Minister	Sher Bahadur Deuba
Preceded by	Ram Karki
Succeeded by	Gokul Prasad Baskota
Minister of State for Health
In office 18 October 2001 – 4 October 2002
Monarch	Gyanendra
Prime Minister	Sher Bahadur Deuba
Minister	Sharat Singh Bhandari
Member of the Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 December 2022
Preceded by	Sher Bahadur Tamang
Constituency	Sindhupalchok 2
In office May 1999 – May 2002
Preceded by	Amrit Kumar Bohora
Succeeded by	Raj Kumar Shrestha {(as member of the Constituent Assembly)
Constituency	Sindhupalchok-1
Member of the Constituent Assembly / Legislature Parliament
In office 21 January 2014 – 14 October 2017
Preceded by	Raj Kumar Shrestha
Succeeded by	Agni Prasad Sapkota (as MP)
Constituency	Sindhupalchok 1
Personal details
Born	(1958-09-09) 9 September 1958 (age 66) Sindhupalchok, Nepal
Nationality	Nepali
Political party	Nepali Congress

He served as the Minister for Information and Communication from 2017–2018 in the fourth Deuba cabinet, having previously served as the State Minister of Health under Deuba from 2001–2002.

Legal issues

In May 2025, Mohan Bahadur Basnet was named in a corruption case filed by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) concerning the procurement of the Teramox telecom monitoring system. The CIAA alleged that the project was advanced without proper evaluation, resulting in a loss of Rs 3.22 billion. Following the charges, Basnet was automatically suspended from Parliament in accordance with the Constitution of Nepal.^[3][4][5]