Kulwant Singh is a businessman and politician[2] who is currently a Member of Legislative Assembly from SAS Nagar and is the first Mayor of Mohali (Punjab).
He was born into a Ravidasia[3]/Ramdasia Sikh family of an army man at Samana Kalan, Rupnagar, Punjab.
[4][5] He left his village and went to Zirakpur and spent three years weighing trucks and other heavy vehicles.
[citation needed] Kulwant Singh represented the ward number 21 as Senior Vice-President of Mohali Municipal Council elections in 1995 for the first time.
[9] He was a candidate for the Fatehgarh Sahib Constituency on the SAD-BJP ticket in 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.