| His family has been associated with the freedom struggle |
| started career as a journalist |
| Founder Editor, Chhatra, a weekly tabloid in Hindi published from Patna, 1972-74 |
| Editor, (i) Yuvak Dhara, first a weekly tabloid and later a fortnightly magazine published from Patna from 1974 and later published from Delhi since 1982 and (ii) Tanzeem Times, a monthly magazine in English published from New Delhi since 1986 |
| Chief Editor, Sadakat Vani, a monthly magazine in Hindi published from Patna since 1988 |
| Editor-in-Chief, Rashtrawadi Sankalp, earlier a fortnightly and now a weekly newspaper in Hindi published earlier from New Delhi since 2001 and now from Mumbai |
| President, (i) Bihar State Youth Congress (I), 1976-81, (ii) All India Youth Congress (I), 19 September 1982 - 24 April 1985 and (iii) Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (I), 5 March 1988 - 7 March 1989 |
| Founder General Secretary, Nationalist Congress Party since 23 May 1999 |
| General Secretary, (i) All India Youth Congress (I), 1981-82 and (ii) All India Congress Committee (I), 4 September 1997 and again from June 1998 - 3 February 1999 |
| Joint Secretary, All India Congress Committee (I), 1982 |
| Chairman, (i) Bihar State Small Scale Industries Corporation, 1982-85, (ii) All India Congress Seva Dal (I), 24 September 1985 -1987, (iii) A.I.C.C. (I) Minority Cell, 27 September 1993 -December 1996 and (iv) Dargah Committee Ajmer, 1993-96 |
| Working Chairman, (i) Bihar State 20-Point Implementation Committee, 1 June 1988 - 19 June 1989 and (ii) Bihar State 15-Point Implementation Committee for Welfare of Minorities, 20 June 1989 - November 1990 |
| Political Secretary to President, Indian National Congress, December 1996 - 4 September 1997 |
| Member, (i) Indian Parliamentary Delegation headed by Hon?ble Speaker in the Inter-Parliamentary Conference, Ottawa (Canada), 1985, (ii) Indian Parliamentary delegation in Inter-Parliamentarians Conference, Bulgaria, 1987, (iii) Indian Goodwill Haj delegation to Saudi Arabia, 1988, and (iv) Indian Parliamentary Delegation to participate in the Meeting of Standing Committee on Political Affairs and Ad-hoc Working Group on ICT of the Asian Parliametnary Assembly, Tehran, 2010 |
