[1] Educated at Mathabhanga High School, he passed Higher Secondary and Junior Basic Training, and became a teacher.
[1] He entered politics at a young age in 1972, when he was studying at Ananda Chandra College in Jalpaiguri.
In the 1996 Lok Sabha election, he contested as a candidate of the Forward Bloc (Socialist) led by Kamal Guha.
He faced defeat then but was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2004 from the Cooch Behar seat as a Forward Bloc candidate.
[2][4] In 2011, he was elected to the state assembly on a Trinamool Congress ticket from the Sitalkuchi (Vidhan Sabha constituency).