[citation needed] He participated in the Chittagong armoury raid, along with Surya Sen and other revolutionaries on 18 April 1930.

After few days police commissioner Charles Tegart attacked the safe house of them in Chandannagar and arrested him.

One young fellow revolutionary Jiban Ghoshal Alias Makhan was killed by the police at time of arrest operation.

He was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1952, 1957 and 1962 as a Communist Party of India candidate from Belgachia.

This time he was defeated by 26-year-old Priya Ranjan Dash Munshi who won his first Lok Sabha election, fighting on the Congress (R) ticket.