He is an MLA from Saitu Assembly constituency, which is reserved for Scheduled Tribes community, in Senapati District.
He won the 2022 Manipur Legislative Assembly election, as an independent politician.
[4] He was a former BJP National vice president of ST Morcha but was denied a ticket by the Saffron party and contested an independent and won.
[6] However, he lost the next election in 2002 to Ngamthang Haokip of the Indian National Congress.
But the veteran bounced back winning the 2022 Assembly election as an independent candidate.