In his two years as an MP, he was a member of the Committee on Commerce and its Sub-Committee on Textiles. From 2003 to 2007 he was the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister for Irrigation, and then from 2012 to 2017 he was the Cabinet Minister for Tourism in the
Akhilesh Yadav ministry. He was also a member of the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Coal, the Railway Convention Committee, and the committee to review the rate of dividend payable by the Railway Undertakings to General Revenues. In 2012, he was elected to the
Indian Legislative Assembly, representing
Zamania, while remaining a cabinet minister in the Uttar Pradesh Government for the
Samajwadi Party. ==References==