He was elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the 1999 election on behalf of the Nepali Congress under the FPTP voting system. He was elected to the Pratinidhi Sabha from the proportional list of the party.
In the 1999 election, he was chosen to represent the Nepali Congress in the Pratinidhi Sabha through the first-past-the-post method. Alternatively, he was selected from the party's proportional representation list for the Pratinidhi Sabha.