Career
He started his association with the Indian National Congress and has been committed for the same right from the age of 12 coinciding with the initial periods of Independent India. He has orating skills in Telugu and Hindi because of which he was chosen as the live translator for all the speeches of late ex-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi when he toured the state of Andhra Pradesh in 1985. Sarma contested as an independent candidate for the Andhra Pradesh Assembly constituency of Vijayawada in 2004 elections where he did a lot of social work in his personal capacity.
He has been serving as the Chairman of Madyapana Vimochana Prachara Committee (Liquor Control Movement) since August 2007 and has been very active in the debates in the propagation of liquor eradication mission.
Prior to being the chairman of this committee, he was the secretary of Ravindra Bharathi and conducted several cultural programs. Sarma was also conferred an honorary degree by Nagarjuna University.
