BETTIAH, Oct. 18 -- Neeraj Singh, 38, laboured as a security guard in big cities before his fortune turned and he became an entrepreneur whose annual turnover touched Rs.200 crore from three industries. Singh on Friday filed poll papers as a Jan Suraaj candidate for Sheohar assembly seat in quest for political fortunes. Talking to Hindustan Times over the phone before filing his papers, he reminisced his days of penury when he, like hordes of Biharis, sailed to cities to make ends meet. Finding greener pastures must have given him ideas and nurtured aspirations in him to see his native land change. That vision, he said, made him tilt towards Jan Suraaj that promises to alter the domestic landscape so that locals don't have to migrate for work. "I cannot forget that chilly winter night when I did not have a blanket to wrap myself while on the way to Pune by train... I cannot forget the night in Delhi when I did not have money for a meal at night and had to subsist on Parle biscuits... Look buddy, the state of Bihar has enough potential deposited in its womb. All that it needed is a new vision to pave the way for industrialisation and a tangible step to stop migration. I had peace of mind only when I returned to Bihar and started my own company...," said Singh, who is an owner of a group of Bihar-based three companies called Usha Industries, Bajrang Trading and Maa Industries. A resident of Mathurapur village in Bihar's Sheohar district, Neeraj Singh's success story sounds like a fairy-tale. He owns a Range Rover and half a dozen luxury cars. While his two sons are enrolled in a school in Dehradun, his two brothers are engaged in brisk business. "But all was not well when I cleared matriculation from Fatahpur Sarkari school in 2003. My father's meagre source of income forced me to look for jobs to supplement the family income, but nobody was ready to hire a minor...Somehow my father kept our body and soul together. After a few years, I found a job as a security guard in Delhi and worked in Pune also and managed to afford my education," said Singh, a law graduate from MS College, Motihari....