He is the son of Beant Singh, the former bodyguard and one of the assassins of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and Bimal Kaur Khalsa, a former Lok Sabha MP who represented the Ropar constituency.

[2] His grandfather, Baba Sucha Singh was also an MP in Lok Sabha, representing Bathinda constituency.

[3] Khalsa ran for the Lok Sabha election in 2004 from the Bathinda constituency and received 113,490 votes.

He then competed in the Punjab Assembly election in 2007 from Bhadaur in Barnala district, garnering only 15,702 votes.

[5][6][7] He achieved success with 2,98,062 votes at 29.38% of the total count, defeating Punjabi actor Karamjit Anmol.