Varinder Singh Bajwa began his political career with the Shiromani Akali Dal in 1980. He served as the youth Akali leader in the 1980s and was elected as president of Hoshiarpur in 1995.[1] He was elected to serve, Rajya Sabha, in 2004 from Punjab until 2010. He quit Akali Dal and eventually served a brief stint in Congress in 2017, until he eventually reconciled with the Akali Dal before 2022 Punjab Assembly elections and has been a senior member ever since then. Varinder Singh Bajwa's wife Jagjeet Kaur is a retired lecturer of English Literature from Government College Hoshiarpur. Bajwa has three daughters residing in London, the United States and India. He is currently the senior vice president of the SAD.