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One should be advocate or parliamentarian, not both: Sibal | India News



NEW DELHI: Senior advocate cum-Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that he personally felt these days one should either be an advocate or a parliamentarian, not both. He was explaining the working of a whip by a political party.
When the judges on the bench — CJI D Y Chandrachud and Justices M R Shah, Krishna Murari, Hima Kohli and P S Narasimha — gave a curious look at Sibal, he said, “We get the three-line whip on WhatsApp. But the party is generous and exempts us from the rigours of disqualification as many a time we are not able to attend House proceedings because of preoccupation in the courts. ” He then added, “In my personal opinion, one should either be an advocate or a parliamentarian or legislator, not both. ”
Senior advocate A M Singhvi, also an RS MP, recalled a conversation he was privy to while being in the company of late BJP leader Arun Jaitley, another senior advocate-turned-MP, and a communist leader whom he refused to name.
“Many years ago, while coming out of RS, a communist leader had said no CA, lawyer, engineer, architect, doctor or similar professionals should be in Parliament. Jaitley then remarked, ‘You (the Left leader) want the unemployed or those unemployable only to be in Parliament? Surely that cannot be your objective’,” Singhvi said.


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