Background
Abhishek Singhvi was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan to Kamla and Laxmi Mall Singhvi, a renowned lawyer and India"s former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, who belonged to Bharatiya Janta Party but now with Indian National Congress.
Abhishek Singhvi was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan to Kamla and Laxmi Mall Singhvi, a renowned lawyer and India"s former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, who belonged to Bharatiya Janta Party but now with Indian National Congress.
He completed his Saint Columba"s School. He obtained Bachelor of Arts(Honours), Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, PIL educated at Saint Stephen"s College, Trinity College, Cambridge and Harvard University. Singhvi completed his Doctor of Philosophy under constitutional lawyer Sir William Wade of Cambridge University.
He was formerly the spokesperson of the Congress party. The topic of his doctoral dissertation at Cambridge University was on Emergency Powers. Abhishek Singhvi is married to ghazal and Sufi singer Anita Singhvi.
1997-1998 Additional Solicitor General of India 2001 onwards National Spokesperson, Indian National Congress April 2006 Elected to Rajya Sabha August
2006 - May 2009 and August 2009-July 2011 Member, Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice August
2006 - August 2007 Member, Joint Committee on Offices of Profit Member, Joint Committee to examine the Constitutional and Legal position relating to Office of Profit Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Urban Development September
2006 - September 2010 Member, Committee of Privileges July 2010 onwards Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of External Affairs July 2011 onwards Chairman, Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice Member, General Purposes Committee A tape allegedly involving Doctor Singhvi with another woman in a compromising positions were circulated. Following this he resigned from Congress and as a Rajya Sabha member.
This sex tape went viral and was uploaded on social media/content sharing sites. In 2014, he was fined Rs.
57 Crore by the Income Tax Settlement Commission for failing to furnish documents supporting his claims of expenditure for running his office.
He was elected to Rajya Sabha (1998–2004) as a member of the Bhartiya Janta Party.