In 2008, Raipur Town seat got delimitised and divided into 4 seats and he contested from Raipur City South and won by margin of 65,686 and became Cabinet Minister for School Education, Public Works Department, Parliamentary Affairs, Tourism, and Endowment Trust Culture in second Raman Singh's Ministry.

He retained the seat in 2013 from Raipur City South by margin of 34,799 and became Cabinet Minister for Agriculture & Bio-Technology, Animal Husbandry, Fish Rearing, Water Resources, Irrigation, Ayacut and Religious Trusts & Endowment in Raman Singh Third ministry.

This was his fourth consecutive win from Raipur South in which he defeated Mahant Ramsundar Das of Dudhdhari Math by a huge margin.

After which he became the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Tourism and Education in the Vishnudev Sai government.

Agrawal defeated his closest rival Vikas Upadhyay of the Congress by about 5.75 lakh votes.