Baldev Khosa


Baldev Khosa is an Indian film actor and politician from Maharashtra. He is a four term Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He lost his seat in the 2014 election. He is most remembered for his role as Sukha in Punjabi film Putt Jattan De.

Family background and film career

Khosa originally hails from village Jhandeana in Moga district, Punjab.

Political career

He was a close confidant of Sunil Dutt and entered politics with him for the first time when Dutt was elected to the Lok Sabha. Baldev Khosa was fielded from the then Amboli (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in Mumbai to fight the state Assembly elections in February 1985 and won. He Lost the 1990 election and then he didn't contest the next state election from Versova Constituency in 1995. In 1999, 2004 & 2009, he was consecutively elected to the Assembly. In 2014 and 2019, he lost the polls. He is a member of the Indian National Congress.

Offices held