He is an MLA from Kota Assembly constituency, in Gaurela Pendra Marwahi District.
He won the 2023 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election, representing the Indian National Congress.
He completed his bachelor's degree in Engineering in 1989 at M.I.T College, Gondiya, Nagpur University.
[4][5] Six candidates from the Royal families, including interim deputy chief minister T. S. Singhdeo, the present Maharaja of erstwhile Surguja state, contested the elections, but all of them lost.
[6] The Jashpur Royal family candidate, Prabal Pratap Singh Judeo, son of former union minister Dilip Singh Judeo, contested from Kota on the BJP ticket, but lost to Shrivastava, by a margin of 7957 votes.