 After working for the Department of Agriculture, he joined the British Army in 1961.He left the army in 1969, returned to Fiji, and completed a Diploma in Education from the University of the South Pacific.For the 1987 general election, the NFP–Labour Coalition chose him as a candidate for the Tavua/Vaileka Indian Communal Constituency which he won easily, but was a member of Parliament for a month when the military coup of 1987 put a halt to his political career.