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Kapil Sibal: Legal heavyweight in politics

Sibal is broadly left of centre, and is in the Congress because he believes all Indians must contest the Hindu nation theory

Kapil Sibal
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Kapil Sibal

Aditi Phadnis New Delhi
Kapil Sibal has been a lawyer for more than 40 years and still remembers the day he fought — and lost — his first case. He got his first brief, an election petition of a politician from Meham in Haryana. The politician had contested an election and won, switching sides after doing so — but the election was set aside on eight counts.
 
One of these was that he had bribed one of the candidates into withdrawing from the contest. A few weeks earlier, judge J Bhagwati had passed an order that if a bribe was offered by one