He graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and completed a master of business administration degree from Buckingham University, UK in 1990.
[2] He started his political career in late 1990s, by assisting with the election campaigns of his father and mother Preneet Kaur, an Indian National Congress MP from the Patiala Lok Sabha constituency, four times, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2019.
In 2005, he was appointed General Secretary of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) in 2005 and made in-charge of the Bathinda district.
[6] He was appointed as the President of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) in December 2009.
He won from his nearest rival Shyam Singh Yadav by a landslide majority.