[2][3] He was arrested by the Sri Lanka Army in April 1999 and handed over to the Terrorist Investigation Division.
[6] Kishore was selected by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to be one of the Tamil National Alliance's (TNA) candidates in Vanni District at the 2004 parliamentary election.
[9] He subsequently joined the governing United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA).
[9] He contested the 2010 parliamentary election as one of the UPFA's candidates in Vanni District but failed to get elected after coming ninth amongst the UPFA candidates.
[10] Kishore contested the 2015 parliamentary election as one of the Tamil United Liberation Front's (TULF) candidates in Vanni District but again the TULF failed to win any seats in Parliament.