His journey of consistently contesting elections as an Independent and losing has even got him the Hindi sobriquet of “Dharti Pakad” given to such candidates after the famous Kaka Joginder Singh “Dharti Pakad”, who had unsuccessfully contested over 300 elections —even the presidential polls.

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