Edited sentence: Although no one is aware of any particular business, let alone any industry owned by him as written by Vir Singhvi [citation needed]in HT recently.Amar Singh was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.Born in a middle-class Rajput family he studied in a Hindi-medium school but went on to join St Xavier's College in Kolkata, where he read English under P.During his initial years in politics, he was in Congress party and a member of AICC.He enjoyed proximity with Pranab Mukherjee and later on became close to Late Madhav Rao Schindhia.However, he remained influential both in the political and industrialists circle till he was expelled.In 1995 he joined Samajwadi party and became member of Rajya Sabha and General Secretary of SP, presently he is serving his third term in Rajyasabha.In January 2010, he resigned from all post of his SP and was later expelled by his party.Lal, the poet and professor.Mr Singh writes in his CV that he is an industrialist and businessman, without any further details