He won the polls by a narrow margin when his tally was increased using second preference votes.

He is the son of Late Shri Kedarnath Poddar, a wholesale cloth merchant from Gumla, Jharkhand.

A well known businessman; he started his career with establishing Miki Wire Works Pvt.

In the career span of almost forty years, he has expanded his wire manufacturing capacity to all parts of the country - Visakhapatnam, Bangalore and Nagpur.

[4][non-primary source needed] Manufacturing mainly pre-cast concrete wire in a varied range of diameters to cater to the infrastructure industry.