 He was known as "Chotanagpur Kesri" - "Lion of Chotanagpur".He was president of Hazaribagh district Congress Committee and worked closely with other national leaders like Rajendra Prasad, Jay Prakash Narayan, Anugrah Narayan Sinha and Shri Krishna Sinha was among the front leaders, during visit of Mahatma Gandhi's visit to Bihar in 1921-26 and in 1941-42

After independence, he disassociated himself from the Congress Party and won first Lok Sabha elections in 1951 from Hazaribagh West as an independent candidate.It was Babu Ram Narayan Singh who first advocated for separate Jharkhand state in the parliament.