Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa | |
Birth Date: | 1 November 1979 |
Residence: | Mohali |
Office: | Member of Parliament |
Constituency: | Faridkot |
Termstart: | 4 June 2024 |
Predecessor: | Mohammad Sadiq |
Party: | Independent |
Father: | Beant Singh |
Mother: | Bimal Kaur Khalsa |
Relatives: | Baba Sucha Singh (grandfather) |
Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa is an Indian politician from Punjab, India.[1] He is serving as a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha representing the constituency of Faridkot since 2024.
He is the son of Beant Singh, the former bodyguard and one of the assassins of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and Bimal Kaur Khalsa, a former Lok Sabha MP who represented the Ropar constituency.[2]
His grandfather, Baba Sucha Singh was also an MP in Lok Sabha, representing Bathinda constituency.[3]
Khalsa ran for the Lok Sabha election in 2004 from the Bathinda constituency and received 113,490 votes. He then competed in the Punjab Assembly election in 2007 from Bhadaur in Barnala district, garnering only 15,702 votes. In 2009 and 2014, he again ran unsuccessfully for the Lok Sabha from the Bathinda and Fatehgarh Sahib constituencies, respectively.[4]
Khalsa was elected as a Member of Parliament from Faridkot as an Independent candidate in 2024 General Elections.[5] [6] [7] He achieved success with 2,98,062 votes at 29.38% of the total count, defeating Punjabi actor Karamjit Anmol.[8]