Vishvjit Singh

[2] He was first elected to the Rajya Sabha (the Upper House of the Indian Parliament) in April 1982, representing the State of Maharashtra.

[3] In 1989, he married Kanwarani Vijay Thakur Singh, who is a diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service and is currently serving at the Ministry of External Affairs, India as Secretary (East).

[4] Singh has been a delegate to several International Conferences as well as to the United Nations General Assembly a number of times.

As chairman of his party's computer department, Singh has also driven initiatives to make more use of technology in election efforts, including putting publicity material, speeches and posters online, installing servers, setting up SMS software to facilitate the sending of bulk SMSs, and establishing a support team.

However, he expressed grudging admiration for the results Seshan achieved in ensuring free and fair elections in which all parties followed the rules.