Dal Bahadur Rana is a member of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) who assumed the post of the Minister of Land Reform and Management of Nepal on 25 February 2014 under Sushil Koirala–led government.
[2][3] In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election he was elected from the Palpa-1 constituency, winning 19,185 votes.
[4] His son, Santosh Rana, was a commercial airline co-pilot who was killed on the 2016 Air Kasthamandap crash.