[4] In 2007, he won his maiden election as an Independent candidate by defeating the former Deputy Chief Minister and also the former Speaker L. Chandramani Singh by a margin of 1644 votes.

[6] He lost the 2017 election by a slimmest of margin of only 114 votes against a sitting Indian National Congress Minister.

[8] On 15 June 2022, Sapam Keba was appointed the Chairman of MEDCO (Manipur Electronics Development Corporation Limited).

[10] In the early 2000s, Sapam Keba and his team founded a political organisation called "Progressive Committee Patsoi Kendra".

Upon becoming the MLA as an independent candidate, the political force of Sapam Keba was not the strongest as the Government led by O. Ibobi Singh of the INC was in a comfortable majority with its allies.

Since in the Centre, there was also the Congress-led UPA Government, the levers of power and patronage were in the hands of Congress politicians whether elected or otherwise.

Projects proposed by Sapam Keba were put in the back burner and there was little to no support whatsoever from the ruling dispensation.

[15] Despite this, Sapam Keba performed admirably and the period of 2007-2012 saw a steady progress in the development of Patsoi Assembly Constituency.

[16] After the defeat in the 2012 Election, Sapam Keba began looking for alternate political options since the AITC did not perform as well as people hoped for.