 After resigning from the army, Amarinder Singh followed in the footsteps of his father and entered politics, where he met with great success.He was elected to parliament from the Patiala constituency in 1980, and to the Punjab state legislative assembly in 1985, 1992 and 2002, serving as minister in the state government for many years.In 2002, he took office as Chief Minister of Punjab for the first time and served a full five-year term until 2007.