He was a member of the Lok Sabha elected in 2014 from Saharanpur as a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

He later won from Saharanpur Nagar seat in 2007 and reclaimed it in 2012 Assembly Polls before entering into Lok Sabha in a highly polarised election in which he defeated nearest Congress candidate by 65 thousand votes.

[4] On 21 April 2017, Lakhanpal and BJP MLA Brijesh Choudhary were arrested along with a party member for alleged involvement in violence at Sadak Dudhli village in Saharanpur district.

[citation needed] On 22 December 2017 he moved a private member bill in the Lok Sabha seeking India must advocate a stringent population policy to overcome the rising population growth and disallow subsidies to those who produce more than two children.

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