Jaiveer Shergill

Jaiveer Shergill (born 28 June 1983) is a practising lawyer in the Supreme Court of India and a politician. Since December 2022, Shergill has been the national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Before that, he was in the same position in Congress.

A graduate in law from UC Berkeley School of Law, Shergill has been writing regularly on national and international socio-political issues, and represented India as one of the 25 Munich Young Leaders at the Munich Security Conference in 2018.

Earlier, Shergill started his political career with the Indian National Congress in 2012, and became one of its youngest spokesperson before quitting the party in August 2022. After practicing law for a few years in Delhi, Jaiveer went to the UC Berkeley School of Law, University of California, United States, and did a master's degree in law. where the company refused to pay a tax demand of Rs. 2000 crore (US$330 million), insisting that the transaction of shares in an overseas tax haven, (Mauritius), had the effect of transferring (i.e. selling) all its assets in India from one party to another, with absolutely no tax liability in India on the sale, whether of sales tax or capital gains tax or any other tax.

Shergill served as the Young India representative for the International Bar Association, one of the most prestigious lawyer organisations in the world, for a period of two years (2008–09).

Jaiveer has also represented one of the two sides in a controversial dispute regarding the offering of prayers at a site claimed by two religious communities in Karnataka state. Recently, Jaiveer represented the new airline venture Vistara, a joint venture of the Tata group and Singapore Airlines, in the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court in a petition challenging the entry of foreign airlines into India. He also has a client base spanning India, Dubai, Australia and USA.

Political career Shergill started his political career with the Indian National Congress in 2012. He was also one of the youngest spokespersons of the Congress Party for Punjab (Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee) and also the youngest person to be appointed as the co-chairman of the Congress Legal Cell for Punjab. Jaiveer was instrumental in voicing various economic and social issues in the media including but not limited to foreign direct investment, depleted conditions of schools in Punjab, alarming drug use, women safety etc.

In 2018, Jaiveer was named as one of the 25 Munich Young Leaders to take part in the Munich Security Conference in Germany to discuss international security issues, including the resurgence of Taliban in Afghanistan, the nuclear flashpoint between the US and North Korea, and China's growing presence in the Indo-Pacific

Shergill joined BJP on 2 December 2022, and was made its national spokesperson.