Two Supreme Court lawyers have become Members of Parliament (MPs) following the recently concluded general elections.
Advocate Bansuri Swaraj of the Bharatiya Janata Party was elected to the Lok Sabha from the New Delhi constituency, while advocate Haris Beeran of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) was nominated to the Rajya Sabha from Kerala.
Beeran, a native of Aluva in Ernakulam district, completed his schooling at Rajagiri School in Kalamassery and his undergraduate studies at Maharaja’s College in Ernakulam. He earned his law degree from Government Law College, Ernakulam. Since 1998, he has been practicing before the Supreme Court, initially starting his career with Senior Advocate Dushyant Dave. Beeran has also served as the Chairman of the National Lawyers Forum. During the UPA government, he was counsel for the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Environment. He is the son of VK Beeran, former Additional Advocate General of Kerala. Some of the significant cases he has been involved in include the CAA-NRC case, the Hijab ban case, the Hadiya case, journalist Siddique Kappan’s case, the Italian Marines case, and cases concerning caste census, economic reservation, and voting rights of non-resident Indians.
Bansuri Swaraj is the daughter of the late Union Minister Sushma Swaraj. She enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi in 2007 and practiced law in the Supreme Court until she entered politics. She also served as the Additional Advocate General of Haryana while maintaining her private practice. Among her notable cases are those involving Lalit Modi and the Chandigarh mayoral candidate who was recently disqualified by the Supreme Court.
