and politician. Khanna was Father and mother Kamla andKc Khanna businessman.
Vinod debuted in as a villan.
In 1997, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and was nominated from Gurdaspur, Punjab in the next year's Lok Sabha poll.
The star-factor helped him out three times Lok Sabha member Sukhbans Kaur Bhinder. Bhinder's perceived inability to develop the area outweighed the "outsider" tag applied to Khanna. The latter became union minister for culture and tourism in July 2002. Six months later he was moved to the more important ministry of external affairs (MEA) as minister of state. In 2004 he won re-election from Gurdaspur.
Presently, he continues to participate in the film business based out of Dubai.