Bob has been involved in many government and community activities for the past several years. He feels strongly that community organizations are a vital part of making and keeping our neighborhoods and our city strong and healthy.

Bob was a board member of United Neighborhoods of Santa Clara County from 2003 to 2004.

Since 2001, he has been an activist for the McLaughlin Corridor Neighborhood Association.

In 1999, Bob served as a member of the Committee for Building Futures at East Side Union High School District.

Bob has long been an active Democrat. He is a delegate to the State Democratic Party from Assembly District 23 and a member of the Santa Clara County Democratic Central Committee.

Bob founded the American Sikh Association and the Sikh American Democratic Club, and he has been a member since 1997. He founded the Sikh Gurdwara of San Jose in 1985, and he has been the Vice President since 2002.

From 1997 to 2001, he was a member of the Berryessa Citizens Advisory Council, and he served as the Vice President of the council in 1999.

From 1999 to 2001, he was a member of the East Side Union High School District Bond Oversight Committee.

Bob is a member of the Berryessa Union School District Superintendent Selection Committee. And in 2000, he served on the Berryessa Union School District Excess Land Disposition Committee.

From 1990 to 1992, Bob worked as a volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America.

Bob knows that active citizen participation is a key to having local government be successful in providing the services that the community needs.