Sema won from the Pughoboto constituency representing the
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) in the 2023 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election. He polled 7,808 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Y. Vikheho Swu of the
Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party, by 850 votes. In the
2018 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election he contested on a BJP ticket and lost by only 70 votes to Swu, who then represented
Naga People's Front. In June 2024, he requested the party president
Chirag Paswan to address the Naga political issue in the parliament, as Paswan is now the union cabinet minister of Food Processing Industries in the BJP-led
NDA government. == References ==