[1] He is an MLA from Madhepura Assembly constituency and also served as a Minister of Education in the Government of Bihar.

He won the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election representing the Rashtriya Janata Dal.

He is recognized for his advocacy on behalf of farmers' rights, he played a role in establishing Food Corporation of India centers in the Kosi and Madhepura regions in 1990s.

[3] On 14 September 2023, Chandra Shekhar stirred a controversy at an event on Hindi Diwas as he compared the Hindu religious book Ramcharitmanas to potassium cyanide, a poisonous compound.

"If you serve 56 kinds of good dishes and mix potassium cyanide into them would you eat them, he reportedly questioned referring to some controversial paragraphs of Ramcharitra manas which is against backward and dalit castes.