Career
Employing non-violent civil disobedience, he participated in Indian Independence Struggle and inspired movements for civil rights environmental protection movements, civil rights across different regions of Odisha. He participated in the freedom movement at the age of about 18. During the course of freedom struggle, he along with his friends, burnt town the police station of Nimapada in protest of British raj.
During this event, there was police firing and one of his close associate and friend died on the spot.
He survived and was arrested and put in Puri Jail. British jails could not stop him from fleeing and keep running his underground struggle against the colonialism.
He went to Calcutta and worked there as a domestic help, in some rich person"s house, keeping his underground works running. He was caught at the Puri Railway station when he arrived back from Kolkota, and again put into jail.
Inside the jail, he used to practicise cotton spinning to produce his own clothing, cleaning up of toilets to maintain a hygienic environment, do daily group prayer and follow other instructions of Gandhiji.
After being released from the jail, he went to Wardha to get training on Swaraj, home rule and other Sarvodaya works. A Sarvodayi A Khadi and Village Industry Promoter BALCO Hatao Movement A book Mati Deepara Alekhya (Odia: ମାଟିଦୀପର ଆଲେଖ୍ୟ) was published on the occasion of his first death anniversary, with articles from some prominent authors and famous persons of the state.