In 1997, he moved to Gurgaon to enter the real estate business and was able to exploit legal reforms to become a successful broker and, eventually, developer.
According to Yuva Portal by 2005, he also had interests in designer clothing production and was an exporter,[2][4] as well as owning a hotel in Gurgaon, a casino in Goa and various car dealerships.
[2] He launched MDLR Airlines around 2006–2007, but it suspended operations in 2009, after accumulating losses and suffering a 2008 tax raid in which numerous employees were convicted.
[7] The relationship with the Chautala family soured when they refused to select Kanda as an INLD candidate in the 2009 state assembly elections, believing that he was incapable of winning.
Exploiting his religious affiliations with Tara Baba,[2] he contested instead as an independent and defeated the INLD candidate, Padam Jain, by a margin of 6521 votes.
[13] Allegations have been made that before her suicide Kanda sent a letter to Emirates saying that she had been a poor employee and had defaulted on a loan, and her family said that he had sent her threatening e-mails using several identities.
[17] Both the police and Geetika Sharma's brother objected to the grant of bail, alleging that medical records had been forged, the freedom would enable witness interference, and that it could prejudice a future trial.
He lost to Makhan Lal Singla of the INLD,[22] despite his opponents acknowledging beforehand that his local popularity negated any potential ill effects from the Sharma case.
[9] In October 2016, with the Sharma case still unresolved, Kanda and his brother, Govind, were charged in relation to an investigation into alleged illegal property development in Sirsa.
[23] Kanda has had other brushes with the law, including a case from 2000 involving cheque bouncing that was still unresolved in 2014,[24] and a 2007 incident when he was discovered in the company of members of the criminal underworld.