He entered politics through the
Students' Federation of India, the CPI(M)’s student wing, and is still remembered in these parts as a firebrand leader who took up the cause of the landless and the poor. He represented
Purnia four times in the
Bihar Legislative Assembly between 1980 and 1998 for 18 years until 14 June 1998 when he was gunned down with his driver Harendra Sharma and party worker Ashfaqur Rehman in broad daylight at Subhash Nagar by
Pappu Yadav in
Purnia. His story was shown in one of the episodes of
Satyamev Jayate on politics. == Personal life ==