Kapil Sibal
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New Delhi: Former Union Minister and senior advocate Kapil Sibal was on Thursday elected as president of the Supreme Court Bar Association.
He got 1066 votes while another senior advocate Pradeep Rai secured 689 votes on the post.
Senior advocate Rachna Srivastava was elected to the post of Vice President and advocate Vikrant Yadav as secretary of the association in the polls held on Thursday.
Sibal had earlier too served as president of the SCBA.
Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh hailed the win of Sibal as president of the Supreme Court Bar Association "by a landslide".
In a post on X, he wrote, "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."