Kapil Sibal

Kapil Sibal
Kapil Sibal
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 16 June 2016
Preceded by	Satish Sharma
Constituency	Uttar Pradesh
Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India
	In office; 19 January 2012 – 26 May 2014
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	Manmohan Singh
Succeeded by	Ravi Shankar Prasad
Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Government of India
	In office; 29 May 2009 – 29 October 2012
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	Arjun Singh
Succeeded by	Pallam Raju
Union Minister of Science and Technology, Government of India
	In office; 23 May 2004 – 22 May 2009
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	Vijay Goel
Succeeded by	Pawan Kumar Bansal
Union Minister of Earth Sciences, Government of India
	In office; 29 January 2006 – 22 May 2009
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	Vijay Goel
Succeeded by	Pawan Kumar Bansal
Union Minister of Law and Justice, Government of India
	In office; 11 May 2013 – 26 May 2014
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	Ashwani Kumar
Succeeded by	Ravi Shankar Prasad
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
	In office; 10 May 2004 – 16 May 2014
Preceded by	Vijay Goel
Succeeded by	Harsh Vardhan
Constituency	Chandni Chowk
President of Supreme Court Bar Association
	In office; 16 May 2024 – 20 May 2025
Vice President	Rachna Srivastava
Previous terms	1995 – 1998; 2001 – 2002
Preceded by	Adish Aggarwala
Succeeded by	Vikas Singh
Personal details
Born	8 August 1948; Jalandhar, East Punjab, India
Party	Independent (2022–present)
Other political; affiliations	Indian National Congress (2003–2022)
Spouses	; Nina Sibal (m. 1973; died 2000) ; Promila Sibal (m. 2005)
Children	2
Parent	Hira Lal Sibal (father);
Relatives	Kanwal Sibal (brother)
Alma mater	St. Stephen's College, Delhi (B.A., M.A.); Faculty of Law, University of Delhi (LL.B.); Harvard Law School; (LL.M.)
Profession	Senior Advocate; Politician
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Kapil Sibal (born 8 August 1948) is an Indian lawyer and politician. A designated Senior Advocate, he served as a Union Minister in the Manmohan Singh government and also as the President of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) from 1995 to 1998, 2001 to 2002, and from 2024 to 2025. He has represented several high-profile cases in the Supreme Court of India, and currently serves as a Member of Parliament, in the Rajya Sabha, representing Uttar Pradesh.

A University of Delhi and Harvard University graduate, Sibal has practised law in Wall Street and held several important posts relating to law and administration including Additional Solicitor General, and President of Supreme Court Bar Association. Sibal first entered Rajya Sabha in 1998 to represent Bihar. Before that, he had unsuccessfully contested for the Lok Sabha against Sushma Swaraj. He later contested from Chandni Chowk and won in 2004 and 2009.

As an Indian National Congress (INC) member, Sibal served under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a minister holding various portfolios during his government. As minister, his actions in an official capacity were controversial multiple times, including when he undertook to regulate internet content. Sibal often was portrayed as an intellectual face of the INC who batted for the party on television and in regular columns.

In the Supreme Court of India, he usually represented the INC. He left the INC in 2022 to file his nomination for the Rajya Sabha as an independent, but was backed by Samajwadi Party.