sentences:  School in the year 1985, intermediate from Colonel Ganj Inter College Allahabad in the year 1987, and law graduation at Lucknow University.In the 2007 Uttar Pradesh state elections, he was overwhelmingly elected from Kunda with a margin of nearly half the votes cast over Shiv Prakash Mishra of the Bahujan Samaj Party.He had stood as an Independent, supported by the Samajwadi Party.