Chairman of Constituent Assembly, Subhash Chandra Nembang was born in 1953 in Ilam's Suntalabari. A law practitioner by profession, Nembang was born to Ram Bahadur and Apindra Kumari. With Bachelor's Degrees in Law and Humanities stream, Nembang has a long political background and earned a good name for himself in his profession during the Panchayat period. He is the first elected Free Student Union chairman of Mahendra Ratna Campus in Ilam. He was also elected as general secretary of Nepal Bar Association in 1987. In 1994, he was appointed Law and Justice Minister in the government of Man Mohan Adhikari, the first democratically-elected communist PM in Nepal. He has also held port folios of General Administration and Local Development in the governments formed later. Nembang has emerged victorious from Ilam-2 in all elections held after the restoration of democracy in 1990. He won both legislative elections of 1991 and 1999, and went on to hold key posts like the chairman of Public Accounts Committee and chairman of the parliament.