Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa

Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa is the Member of Parliament for Faridkot, elected in June 2024 as an Independent. He is the son of Beant Singh, the bodyguard accused of killing Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at her residence on 31 October 1984, after Operation Blue Star. His family has also been in electoral politics: The Tribune reports that his mother, Bimal Kaur Khalsa, was elected MP from Ropar in 1989 and his grandfather, Sucha Singh, MP from Bathinda in the same year.

Key moments

• 2004: he stood for the Lok Sabha from Bathinda and polled 113,490 votes. In 2007 he stood for the assembly from Bhadaur in Barnala district and polled 15,702 (The Tribune).
• 4 June 2024: he won Faridkot, a reserved seat, as an Independent with 298,062 votes, 70,053 ahead of Karamjit Singh Anmol of the Aam Aadmi Party (228,009). Congress's Amarjit Kaur Sahoke polled 208,889, the Akali Dal's Rajwinder Singh Dharamkot 138,251 and the BJP's Hans Raj Hans 123,533 (WION).
• 14 January 2025: on Maghi at Muktsar, supporters of Amritpal Singh launched Akali Dal (Waris Punjab De), with Amritpal Singh named its mukh sewadar. Khalsa and Amritpal Singh's father, Tarsem Singh, sat on a five-member executive committee given the task of building the party's organisation. Khalsa told the gathering the party would succeed "with the blessings of Almighty". The Tribune reported that the party said it was committed to reforms to empower the Sikh institutions.

His parliamentary record, in numbers: PRS Legislative Research, which lists him as an Independent, shows attendance of 31 per cent between 24 June 2024 and 13 August 2026, against 85 per cent nationally and 70 per cent for Punjab. It records one question, on contaminated water in Faridkot (18 December 2025), two special mentions and no private member's bills. The Tribune's analysis of the first four sessions, to 4 April 2025, had him signing for 25 of 68 sittings, the lowest of the MPs it covered. The sources carry no statement from him on the figures.