While BJP has won the election with a sweeping majority, a fleet of lawyers including Arun Jaitley, Salman Khurshid, Kapil Sibal, Vivek Tankha, HS Phoolka and Babu Mathew were defeated by huge margins..Arun Jaitley, senior BJP leader who contested from Amritsar against Congress Candidate Capt. Amarinder Singh lost by more than 1,00,000 votes. Narendra Modi in his campaign speech had said that Jaitley would be the Finance Minister, if BJP was voted to power. However, it is understood that Jaitley’s Rajya Sabha’s membership still makes him eligible for the new government’s Cabinet..The UPA Law Minister, Kapil Sibal was not even a runner up in the Chandni Chowk constituency. He was pushed to 3rd place behind AAP candidate Ashutosh. External Affairs Minister and former Law Minister, Salman Khurshid lost to Mukesh Rajput of BJP from Farrukhabad..Senior Advocate and former Additional Solicitor General Vivek Tankha who was the Congress Candidate from Jabalpur was defeated by Rakesh Singh of BJP..The lawyer who is known to represent the sikh riot victims of 1984, HS Phoolka also lost from Ludhiana to Congress candidate Ravneet Singh Bittu. Former NLSIU Professor Babu Mathew, who is currently teaching at NLU Delhi, also suffered defeat in the Bangalore North constituency from where he had contested on AAP ticket..With all the UPA biggies losing the election, the Supreme Court will now witness the return of Kapil Sibal, Salman Khurshid, Vivek Tanka and the Finance Minister P Chidambaram, who did not contest this time.
While BJP has won the election with a sweeping majority, a fleet of lawyers including Arun Jaitley, Salman Khurshid, Kapil Sibal, Vivek Tankha, HS Phoolka and Babu Mathew were defeated by huge margins..Arun Jaitley, senior BJP leader who contested from Amritsar against Congress Candidate Capt. Amarinder Singh lost by more than 1,00,000 votes. Narendra Modi in his campaign speech had said that Jaitley would be the Finance Minister, if BJP was voted to power. However, it is understood that Jaitley’s Rajya Sabha’s membership still makes him eligible for the new government’s Cabinet..The UPA Law Minister, Kapil Sibal was not even a runner up in the Chandni Chowk constituency. He was pushed to 3rd place behind AAP candidate Ashutosh. External Affairs Minister and former Law Minister, Salman Khurshid lost to Mukesh Rajput of BJP from Farrukhabad..Senior Advocate and former Additional Solicitor General Vivek Tankha who was the Congress Candidate from Jabalpur was defeated by Rakesh Singh of BJP..The lawyer who is known to represent the sikh riot victims of 1984, HS Phoolka also lost from Ludhiana to Congress candidate Ravneet Singh Bittu. Former NLSIU Professor Babu Mathew, who is currently teaching at NLU Delhi, also suffered defeat in the Bangalore North constituency from where he had contested on AAP ticket..With all the UPA biggies losing the election, the Supreme Court will now witness the return of Kapil Sibal, Salman Khurshid, Vivek Tanka and the Finance Minister P Chidambaram, who did not contest this time.