Career
Sekhwan"s father Ujagar Singh Sekhwan was Modern Language Association from Kahnuwan in 1977 and 1980. He remained the president of Akali Dal during the Emergency in India. Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, then SAD president encouraged him to follow his father and supported him to run for Kahnuwan assembly in Gurdaspur District.
He was elected Modern Language Association in 1997 from Kahnuwan.
He was made Revenue, Rehabilitation and Public Relations, Minister in the Badal government.