NLSIU Bangalore 1997 graduate and Nagaland’s advocate general and senior counsel Vikramjit Banerjee, is the youngest in the batch of three new additional solicitors general (ASG) who has been appointed at the Supreme Court. He is also the first NLU graduate to make it to the post of ASG.
Senior advocates Aman Lekhi and Sandeep Sethi have also been appointed, reported Bar & Bench.
They will join five other lawyers who are currently ASG at the Supreme Court, according to the Express.
Banerjee made Nagaland’s AG in June 2015, and was designated a senior by the Gauhati high court in December 2016. He is a member of the BJP legal cell.
Banerjee had co-edited a book in 2008 titled The Truth About Teesta Setalvad. The book has received mixed reviews on Amazon, alternately praising it with five stars as a “very nicely written shady and propaganda links of Teesta..scamster” or with one star as “malicious propaganda”, that “is a work of fiction presented as researched evidence against India’s leading torch bearer of morality. The agenda is clear, to undermine the activist fighting against fascism at tremendous personal cost. The core ideology of those opposing this woman is that of a religious theocratic state. Worst propaganda of it's kind”.
CLC Delhi alumni Sethi and Lekhi are enrolled with the Delhi bar council in 1989 and were designated, respectively, in 2004 and 2005 by the Delhi high court.
The husband of BJP national spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi, Lekhi's most famous appearances have been in the Supreme Court's coal scam cases, 2G case and Commonwealth Games scam case.
Sethi specialises in IPR, having co-founded Lall & Sethi with Chander Lall before becoming a senior advocate.
His more well-known appearances in the Delhi high court include for Republic TV vs Shashi Tharoor, and the WhatsApp privacy case.
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Here's to your upholding the Constitution sans saffron colored lenses
A very concerned citizen
Now, let me know how deserving are you to even comment what you commented.
Re comment number 1, arguing whether someone is deserving or not of public office is not necessarily the same as attacking someone's competence.
Can’t say the same for the government unfortunately, they’ve still not appointed an SG, and had added BJP legal cell and HABs of BJP to the government officer posts.
I do take objection to your use of the word clickbait though. Just because a story is headlined attractively and encourages people to click on it, makes it clickbait only if:
- the headline hides crucial information to encourage clicks (i.e., the traditional "You'll never guess which NLS graduate just became ASG!!"), or
- it promised more than the article delivers ("The appointment of this NLU grad as ASG will BLOW YOUR SOCKS OFF!!").
- or "Vikram Banerjee makes ASG, and 11 other amazing things NLU graduates have done".
Luckily, those types of headlines have died a swift death with the decline of Facebook as a traffic source for publishers.
But that's ok, you can keep calling it clickbait, people calling 'good' headlines clickbait, is just another pet peeve of mine. :)
All said and done, he is the FIRST ever NLS grad to hold a Constitutional Post i.e. Advocate General of a state (not additional AG that all and sundry from NLS have become).
Also, he is the FIRST person from NLU system to have become the ASG. Like it or not, this is the trust. And you will have to deal with it. HAHAHA! I feel so sad for you guys!
Now, go think about getting clients and making a living out of your frustrated lives.
1. Wrote a book against Teesta Setalvad
books.google.com.au/books?id=K-ZXBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover
2. Represented Hindu groups in the Ayodhya case
archive.tehelka.com/story_main47.asp?filename=Op301010Courts_can.asp
Acche din for BJP/RSS people.
I doubt if you even know about them. These are very prestigious appointments which you should cover, because all the news you cover about academics is just confined to depressing news about bad faculty in India. This puts off students from joining careers in academics.
- NLS is basically KLS (Karnataka Law School) when it comes to faculty
- NLSIU alumni prefer to teach abroad or at NLUD
- NLSIU also has very few alumni from other NLUs
- Numerically, NLUD, NALSAR and NUJS have more NLU alumni than NLSIU
- Even graduates from other good universities (JNU etc) are not that many at NLSIU
- And if you count foreign degrees, NLSIU is behind NLUD, NALSAR and NUJS
- In terms of faculty research NLSIU's output is very average.
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