He was cabinet minister in Shivraj Singh's government and held Industry Policy and Investment Promotion portfolio.
[2] He represents Badnawar in the state legislative assembly which comes under Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh and is a four-time MLA.
[6] After his education, he joined Lufthansa as a marketing manager but left the job to contest his first election as an independent candidate.
[16] In mid-2018, he was appointed a member of election campaign committee and Vice President in state Congress unit.
In order to oversee the efforts of party for 2018 assembly election, he was made in-charge of Ujjain division too.