Senior advocate Kapil Sibal elected as SCBA president

"This is also, in the outgoing PM's words, a trailer for the changes that will happen very soon nationally. The soon to be former regime's legal drumbeaters and cheerleaders must be shocked," he said

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal elected as SCBA president

Kapil Sibal. File pic

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) chose senior counsel Kapil Sibal as its new president on Thursday. The association's elections took place on Thursday. In addition to Sibal, other candidates running for SCBA president included senior lawyers Adish C. Aggarwala, Pradeep Kumar Rai, Priya Hingorani, and advocates Tripurari Ray and Neeraj Srivastava. Sources claim that Rai received over 650 votes, whereas Sibal received over 1,000.

Per a PTI report, Sibal, a 1989 Harvard Law School graduate, served as India's additional solicitor general from 1989 to 1990. In 1983, he received the designation of senior advocate. The former minister of the Congress-led UPA administration presided over the SCBA three times between 1995 and 2002. The Supreme Court had previously ordered that women members only be allowed to hold certain positions on the SCBA's executive committee. According to a bench of justices Surya Kant and K V Vishwanathan, the SCBA is a top organisation and a crucial component of the nation's highest court. It had stipulated that reservations would be made for female bar members.

The bench had said in the upcoming 2024-2025 SCBA polls, the post of treasurer of the executive committee be reserved for women. On Sibal getting elected to the post of SCBA president, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said, "Kapil Sibal has just been elected as president of the Supreme Court Bar Association by a landslide. This is a big win for liberal, secular, democratic, and progressive forces." "This is also, in the outgoing PM's words, a trailer for the changes that will happen very soon nationally. The soon-to-be former regime's legal drumbeaters and cheerleaders must be shocked," he told PTI.

(With Inputs from PTI)

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