Articles tagged under: Kapil Sibal

Rahul and Congress should make stand clear on Sibal’s stand in Ramjanmbhoomi case: Shah

December 05, 2017

Ahmedabad: BJP president Amit Shah today termed the stand of senior Congress leader and counsel of All India Sunni Waqf Board Kapil Sibal during the hearing of Ram Janmbhomi case in the apex court as 'Surprising' and asked Congress party and its leader Rahul Gandhi, who was visiting temple after temple in Gujarat at the time of election, to put aside the double-policy and clear their official stand on it. Addressing a press conference here Shah said, 'The hearing of ShriRa...Read More

Modi hit out at Sibal terming his ‘lawyer of lies’, asks- why Congress could not send him to jail in 10 years

December 04, 2017

Bhavanagar: PM Narendra Modi today hit out at Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal who has reportedly given a formula of reservation to Patidar community over and above 50% limit put by the apex court, and termed him a lawyer who is used by Congress party for all the cases pertaining to its lies. Addressing a rally here he also recalled that Sibal had in a Congress rally in Viramgam in 2007 election claimed that Modi would soon be landed in jail. 'But despite passage of 10 yea...Read More

PAAS conveners and Kapil Sibal board same flight from New Delhi to Vadodara

November 18, 2017
PAAS conveners and Kapil Sibal board same flight from New Delhi to Vadodara

Ahmedabad: Amid the ongoing hullabaloo over the PAAS-Congress proposed meeting which could not take place yesterday, four members of the Hardik Patel led outfit today met senior party leader Kapil Sibal at Delhi airport and boarded the same flight to Vadodara where a meeting between the two side was likely to take place. Lalit Vasoya, one of the members of PAAS who met Sibal at the airport along with Dinesh Bambhaniya, Manoj Panara and Kirit Patel, said over phone from there t...Read More

Late night Sibal-PAAS meeting another drama of Congress: CM Rupani

November 09, 2017
Late night Sibal-PAAS meeting another drama of Congress: CM Rupani

Vadodara: CM Vijay Rupani today said that the late-night meeting between congress leader Kapil Sibal and PAAS in Ahmedabad on Patidar quota issue was another 'drama' of the opposition party. Talking to newsmen here during his door-to-door campaign in Vadodara, Rupani said, 'We are saying it right from the beginning that Congress was staging a drama on the issue. Congress was only talking in round-about manner on the issue and was not able to maintain a fixed stand.' Rup...Read More

Not given any options to PAAS on quota issue: Sibal

November 09, 2017
Not given any options to PAAS on quota issue: Sibal

Ahmedabad: Contrary to the claims of PAAS, Senior Congress leader and former union minister Kapil Sibal, who held a late night meeting with the outfit on contentious quota issue to the Patidar community clearly said that he had not given any options but only discussed various constitutional aspects of the issue. Talking to newsmen here after the meeting which concluded in the wee hours today Sibal said that during the around two and a half to three hours long meeting, which was ...Read More

Not adamant on OBC quota: PAAS ahead of meeting with Sibal

November 08, 2017
Not adamant on OBC quota: PAAS ahead of meeting with Sibal

Ahmedabad: PAAS convener Dinesh Bambhania who was leading the 13 member core committee of the outfit during its talks with Congress leader and former union minister Kapil Sibal on the issue of reservation to Patidar community here tonight, said that his outfit was not adamant on OBC quota. After a meeting of the core committee at his farmhouse in Sargasan near Gandhinagar before the meeting with Sibal, Bambhania said that PAAS wanted reservation in a constitutional manner. It wa...Read More

PAAS – Congress meeting on Wednesday evening; Kapil Sibal to attend it

November 07, 2017

Ahmedabad: Another meeting, probably the last one between Hardik Patel led Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti(PAAS) and Indian National Congress is likely to take place tomorrow evening at State party headquarters Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan in Ahmedabad. It is learnt that Congress leader and Supreme Court lawyer Kapil Sibal will attend this meeting and share his findings on possible constitutional/legal way to give reservation quota to politically strong Patidar community in jobs and education in Guja...Read More

Kapil Sibal to hold meeting with PAAS on November 6

November 01, 2017

Ahmedabad: Congress leader, Rajya Sabha MP and Supreme Court lawyer Kapil Sibal will be on visit to Gujarat on November 6. Sibal who has earlier fought case for quota agitation leader Hardik Patel will hold meeting with Hardik's team in Ahmedabad regarding 'possible ways out to give reservation quota to Patidar community in constitutional way'. Three other 'constitutional experts' and 'lawyers' are also expected to join Sibal. Hardik's organization had openly campaigned for Congress in year 20...Read More

Kapil Sibal’s lies punctured, a point to point note in response

November 28, 2013

Ahmedabad, 28 November 2013 Kapil Sibal today addressed a press conference and made allegations against the Gujarat growth model. On scrutiny, his claims were found to be factually incorrect and far from the truth. Here is a comprehensive note on the same: Kapil Sabil’s lies punctured -Kapil Sibal turns a blind eye to the most exemplary growth model i.e. Gujarat in order to score political brownie points. -He resorts to half baked facts and selective reporta...Read More

Over 78,000 cases pending, shortage of Judges in Gujarat HC:Union Law Minister informs Parimal Nathwani in Rajya Sabha

August 19, 2013

New Delhi, 19 August 2013 The data on pendency of cases is maintained by the Supreme Court and High Courts. As per the available information, the details of pending Civil and Criminal cases in 21 High Courts of the country were 34,01,193 and 9,39,674 respectively. Thus, there were total numbers of 43,40,867 cases pending in the High Courts as on 31.03.12. This was stated by Mr. Kapil Sibal, the Union Minister of Law & Justice and Communications and Information Technolog...Read More