Education
He completed his higher secondary from Williams High school, supaul His home town was Buzrug Dwar Warisnagar, a small village of Samastipur.
politician member of the Lok Sabha
He completed his higher secondary from Williams High school, supaul His home town was Buzrug Dwar Warisnagar, a small village of Samastipur.
Born in Supaul Bihar in 1968, he has a Diploma in Engineering from Patna and Delhi. He was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha in 1999 and was appointed Minister of State and held various portfolios such as food processing industries, youth affairs and sports and human resource development at different times. Later he held the Textiles portfolio as Cabinet Minister from 2003 to 2004.
He is often referred to as "The Original Youth leader".
He entered the 15th Lok Sabha again from Bhagalpur in 2009. He contested the Lok Sabha election in 2014 from Bhagalpur again but lost with a small margin.
He was given independent charge of the Ministry of Coal in 2001 and was elevated to the rank of a Cabinet Minister with Civil Aviation portfolio in September 2001, thereby becoming the youngest Cabinet Minister ever in the Government of India.