[5] He first became an MLA winning the 2003 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election representing Naga People's Front.
[6] He retained the seat for NPF winning the 2008 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election, where he defeated Khaming again, by a huge margin of 5,772 votes.
[8] In 2013, he polled 9,168 and defeated the Indian National Congress candidate, H. Haiying, by a margin of 3,305 votes.
However, in the 2018 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election, he lost as an NPF candidate to Haiying, who contested this time on the Bharatiya Janata Party ticket.
[8][9] He regained the seat winning the 2023 Assembly election after shifting to Nationalist Congress Party and became an MLA for the fourth time.