On May 16, 2024 (Thursday), Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal was elected to the post of the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA). Sibal won the election by securing 1066 votes and defeated his nearest rival Senior Advocate Pradeep Rai who got 689 votes. Six candidates contested for the post of SCBA President, Kapil Sibal, Pradeep Kumar Rai, Adish Aggarwal, Priya Hingorani, Neeraj Srivastava, and Tripurari Ray. Previously, Sibal has served as the president of SCBA three times in 1995-1996, 1997-1998, and 2001-2002. Rachna Srivastava and Vikrant Yadav were elected as the Vice President and the Secretary respectively.
On Sibal being elected as the President of SCBA, Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh posted on X (earlier known as Twitter), “Kapil Sibal has just been elected as president of the Supreme Court Bar Association by a landslide. This is a big win for liberal, secular, democratic, and progressive forces. This is also, in the outgoing PM’s words, a trailer for the changes that will happen very soon nationally. The soon to be former regime’s legal drumbeaters and cheerleaders must be shocked.”