• 1998 Elected to 12th Lok Sabha • 1998-99 Member, Committee on External Affairs and its Sub-Committee-III; Member, Committee on Finance; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Water Resources • 1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (2nd term) • 13 Oct. 1999-2002 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Communications • 10 Jan - 30 June 2002 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology • 1 July 2002 -2004 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers (India) He was Union
Minister of Communications and Information Technology (India). Later he was Union
Minister of State,
Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. He unsuccessfully contested the Dum Dum Lok Sabha constituency in the
2009 general election where the
All India Trinamool Congress candidate (who won and became the MP) got 458,988 votes whereas the
Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate got 438,510 votes) and he polled only 55,679 votes. ==Dr. Syamaprasad Jana Jagaran Manch==