Later he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party when it launched a movement to build Ram Temple in Ayodhya and contested Lok Sabha elections in 1991 as the BJP candidate.

In 1999, he quit the Bharatiya Janata Party to join the Indian National Congress after he developed serious differences with Pramod Mahajan.

In 2009, he again contested on BJP's ticket but lost the election to Vilas Muttemwar of Indian National Congress.

[12] Purohit gained ownership of the Nagpur daily newspaper The Hitavada from Servants of India Society in 1979.

His eldest granddaughter, Archana Purohit Agrawal is a business coach, startup founder and author for the Book Agency Adda.

He is the chairman of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan schools founded by late Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi in 1938.