He was nominated to contest the 2024 Indian General Election in Bihar from the Nalanda seat against the incumbent MP Kaushalendra Kumar of JD(U).
Saurav hails from Maner, a satellite town in Patna metropolitan region, Bihar.
[2] Saurav left his job as an assistant professor and joined politics.
He contested as an MLA candidate for the first time in 2020 and was elected from Paliganj seat.
Earlier, he was the councillor and general secretary of the JNU Students' Union in 2013.