[1] He has twice been a Member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly,[2] and was the Minister of Animal and Sheep Husbandry from 2002 to 2008.
[7] After the 2002 Jammu and Kashmir general elections, he served as the Minister of Animal and Sheep Husbandry in the government.
[11] In October 2016, he accused the police of not pressing appropriate charges against BJP workers who brutally assaulted Bishan Dass, a scheduled caste youth, at Ramnagar Temple.
He alleged that hate crimes against scheduled caste members had risen in the area as a consequence of recent BJP electoral victories, saying that seven unexplained deaths of scheduled caste members had gone unsolved in the area over a period of 18 months.
[12] Previously, in the December 2014 Jammu and Kashmir general elections, he had lost his seat to a BJP candidate.