Open letter from Advocate Forum, Allahabad to Bar Council of India Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra

Bureau Prayagraj Honorable, Your statement that “in the country 35 From 40 Percentage of lawyers are fake” is not just an insensitive comment, Rather, it is an attack on the self-respect of the entire advocate community. This statement was not made by the spokesperson of any TV debate., Rather, it has been given by the President of that organization which respects the dignity of the lawyers of the country., Must protect independence and professional standards. But the truth is that your statement is less of an accusation on the lawyers and more of a public confession of your own failures.

If in reality such a large number of fake lawyers exist in the country, So first of all you yourself are standing in the dock. Because the leadership of the Bar Council of India has been in your hands for years. From degree verification to enrollment system, From affiliation of law colleges to monitoring of legal education – every important mechanism has operated under your chairmanship and influence.

Then tell me that-

Who gave recognition to law colleges without buildings?

Who gave license of “Legal Education” to institutions without qualified teachers and libraries??

Who allowed legal education to be transformed into private shops with political patronage??

Who allowed inspections to turn into formal corruption and paperwork??

The crowd of low-quality law graduates seen in the courts today, That is not the result of any coincidence. This is the result of the destructive model run for years under your presidency in which education, Manyata’s business continued to flourish.

The irony is that instead of accepting responsibility for this entire collapse, you declared the entire advocate community as “fake”. This is the same mentality in which the leadership starts blaming the public to hide its failure.

The country’s advocate community is also seeing that the Bar Council of India is gradually turning into less of an independent body of advocates and more of an informal collaborative platform of the ruling establishment. Your voice has never been more vocal on the problems of young lawyers struggling in the courts, How polite you have been towards power.

Your public conduct has deepened the impression that the leadership of the Bar Council is now more interested in obtaining the favors of those in power rather than fighting the fight for the advocates. The politics of Rajya Sabha and the desire for acceptance in the corridors of power have seriously damaged the institutional dignity of the Bar Council.

Three new criminal laws of the country-Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha SanhitaAndBharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam When there was widespread dissatisfaction among lawyers across the country regarding, When serious objections were being raised from the District Bars to the High Courts, When the lawyer community wanted democratic discussion and resistance, you played the role of cooling that dissent instead of organizing it. Instead of becoming the voice of the advocates, you worked to save the government from inconvenience.

The Bar Council of India is an independent, Should have been a bold and democratic institution, But during your tenure this institution has become increasingly centralized., Became opaque and power-friendly. Lawyers’ confidence weakened, The level of legal education dropped, The future of young lawyers became insecure and the moral credibility of the institution continued to deteriorate.

Today when you are putting the entire profession in the dock, Then the lawyer community of the country is asking you – if everything is so rotten, So where will the accountability of the person holding the top position for years be fixed??

The minimum principle of morality in any democratic institution says that a person who is presenting his own tenure as such a catastrophic failure, He no longer has the moral right to continue in office.

Therefore, now the time has come that instead of humiliating the advocate community, you accept your responsibility and immediately resign from the post of Chairman of the Bar Council of India.

Because advocacy is still an independent pillar of democracy—and it cannot be limited by an individual’s political ambitions., Proximity to power and administrative failures cannot be allowed to become a shield.

— advocate forum, Allahabad