[2] Konyak started his career with Nagaland Nationalist Organisation but Indian National Congress in June 1976.
[7] On 8 September 1981, he demanded a commission of enquiry to be set up through the Lok Sabha to probe into the North-Eastern Hill University.
[8] He held the Nagaland Lok Sabha seat in the 1984 General Elections on an Indian National Congress ticket.
During a parliamentary debate on the Food Corporation of India, Konyak alleged that 50 per cent of the rice allocated to Nagaland through public distribution system did not reach the state population.
[9] In December 1987, he resigned from the seat subsequent to his elections to the Nagaland state assembly and induction into the Hokishe Sema cabinet.