Who is Kapil Sibal?
Kapil Sibal is an Indian lawyer and politician. A designated Senior Advocate, he has represented several high-profile cases in the Supreme Court of India and is widely regarded as one of the famous lawyers of India. He is a Member of Parliament, in Rajya Sabha. Kapil Sibal has won the election to the post of the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association. This will be his fourth tenure as president of SCBA.
Wiki/Overview
| Full Name | Kapil Hira Sibal |
| Nickname | N/A |
| Profession | Lawyer and Politician |
| Date of Birth | 8 August 1948 |
| Place of Birth | Jalandhar, East Punjab, India |
| Age (as of 2024) | 75 |
| Father | Hira Lal Sibal |
| Mother | N/A |
| Spouse | Nina Sibal (Died), Promila Sibal |
| Education | LL. M. |
| Alma Mater | Harvard Law School |
| Organization | N/A |
| Known for | Renowned Senior Advocate and Member of Parliament |
| Residence | Punjab |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Religion | N/A |
| Hair Colour | White |
| Height | N/A |
| Weight | N/A |
| Eye Colour | Black |
| Zodiac Sign | N/A |
Sibal was born on 8 August 1948 in Jalandhar in Punjab. His family migrated to India during the partition in 1947. Kapil Sibal moved to Delhi in 1964.
Career
In 1973, after having declined an offer to join India’s civil service, Sibal established his own law practice. He built a highly successful legal career that included an appointment in 1989–90 as the additional solicitor general of India. In 1993 he successfully defended the chief justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana against impeachment proceedings in the Lok Sabha (lower chamber of the Indian parliament). Between 1995 and 2002 he served three times as the president of India’s Supreme Court Bar Association.Sibal became known as a specialist in constitutional law. On the basis of that reputation, he was nominated in 1998 to the Rajya Sabha (upper chamber of India’s parliament), representing the Congress Party from Bihar state. In 2000–02 he served there as the secretary of Congress’s parliamentary membership. He decided to contest a seat in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections and won in a constituency in the Delhi national capital territory. He was reelected from that constituency in 2009. Sibal’s 2004 win was part of the overall victory by the Congress-led UPA coalition, which then formed a government and began appointing Sibal to ministerial posts. He subsequently suspended his active law practice. His first cabinet-level assignments were in 2006, when he took on the portfolios for both science and technology and ocean development (the latter soon renamed earth sciences). In 2009 he became the minister for human resource development, and the following year, under his initiative, the parliament passed a law that required the government to provide free elementary education to all children between the ages of 6 and 14. In January 2011 Sibal was also made minister for communications and information technology, continuing on in that dual role until he relinquished the human resources development component in late 2012. Nonetheless, in May 2013 he was given the additional portfolio of law and justice. He remained in both posts until the UPA government left office in May 2014, following the landslide victory by the Bharatiya Janata Party in elections to the Lok Sabha held earlier that spring. He also lost his seat in parliament, but two years later he returned to the Rajya Sabha. Kapil Sibal has won the election to the post of the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association. This will be his fourth tenure as president of SCBA.
Family and Affairs
He married Nina Sibal in 1973, who died of breast cancer in 2000. Amit and Akhil, Sibal’s two sons from his first marriage, are both lawyers. In 2005, Sibal married Promila Sibal.
Achievements
Sibal was named a “Living Legend of the Law” by the International Bar Association and in 2006, the Government of India honoured him with the ‘Padma Bhushan’ award for his distinguished services in the field of Public Affairs.
Appearence
Sibal has white coloured hairs and black coloured eyes.
Money Factor
| Net Worth | N/A |
| Salary / Income | N/A |
Trivia & Fact
- An anthology of Kapil Sibal’s poems titled I Witness: Partial Observation was published by Roli Books, New Delhi, in August 2008.
- His lyrics were also turned into a studio album by A. R. Rahman titled Raunaq: Conversation of Music and Poetry in 2014.
- Kapil Sibal has penned down the lyrics of the songs “Tere bina” and “Mast hawa” for 2016 Hindi film Shorgul.
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