He won the 2014 Indian general election as a Lok Jan Shakti Party candidate.
He defeated vice-president of RJD Raghuvansh Prasad Singh by around 1 lakh votes.
One of their sons, Rajiv Singh, died in a road accident in Uttar Pradesh.
[3] In August 2004, Chandrama Singh, a candidate for local government elections in Desri, was shot and killed.
Singh was one of the prime targets of the Nitish Kumar government as a part of its pledge against crime.