Career
He was elected to Bihar Legislative Assembly first time in 1972 as a candidate of Bharatiya January Sangh. Later in 1977 he was again elected to the assembly and served as minister for welfare in Government of Bihar until 1979. Paswan got elected to Rajya Sabha in 1990 and served as its member until 1996.
In the same year he was elected to Lok Sabha from Nawada.
He studied Master of Arts from Ramdayalu Singh College and Langat Singh College in Muzaffarpur. He is a teacher by profession.
Paswan took part in Bihar movement launched by Jayaprakash Narayan and was arrested by then Congress government in the emergency in 1976 and kept in jail for 19 months.
