Ram Bahadur Rai started his career as journalist with
Hindustan Samachar. He wrote eyewitness account of
Bangladesh Liberation War for Hindi Daily
Aaj, published from
Varanasi. Later on he moved to Delhi and started working journalist with Hindi daily
Jansatta. At Jansatta he worked as Bureau Chief and News Editor. For a short span of time he worked as special correspondent for
Navbharat Times also. At present he is working as group editor of Hindusthan Samachar. In the year 2015 Government of India appointed Ram Bahadur Rai as the president of
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) executive committee.
First person to be jailed during emergency Rai was the first person to be jailed, in 1974, under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act,(MISA). This act was passed by the Indira Gandhi government in 1973, giving dictatorial powers to law enforcement agencies, and repealed by the subsequent Janata Party Government in 1977. He was again jailed for eighteen months.
Organiser of JP movement Ram Bahadur Rai served as one of the key member of the steering committee of JP movement. Rai played an important role during student movement of 1974. It was Ram Bahadur Rai under whose leadership students' leaders of many organisations met JP and requested him to lead the movement. ==Books Authored==