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P. Sathasivam

P. Sathasivam on 29 June 2013 was appointed as the next Chief Justice of India after he justified the Collegiums System of appointment of Judges. The 64 year old Sathasivam will succeed the incumbent Chief Justice of India, Altamas Kabir, who will superannuate on 18 July 2013 from his office. Sathasivam will be the 40th Chief Justice of India (CJI) and his appointment to the post has been approved by Pranab
Mukherjee, the President of India.

About P. Sathasivam

He was appointed as a Supreme Court judge on 21 August 2007. As the 40th CJI, he will serve  the nation till his 26 April 2014. In January 1996, he joined Madras high court as a permanent judge. In April 2007, he was transferred to the Punjab and Haryana high court. He was born on 27 April 1949. He was enrolled as an advocate on 25 July 1973 at Madras.

He has practiced in all types of Writ, Civil and Criminal matters, Company Petition, Insolvency Petitions, Habeas Corpus Petitions both on Original and Appellate sides of the Madras High Court. He has served as Government Advocate, Additional Government Pleader, Special Government Pleader in the Madras High Court. He has also worked as Legal Adviser for several State owned Transport Corporations, Municipalities, Nationalized Banks and more.

Nawaz Sharif

Nawaz Sharif on 5 June 2013 took oath to the office of the Prime Minister of Pakistan for his third term after formally being elected as the Prime Minister by the National Assembly. Sharif returned back to power almost after 14 years after he was forced to leave the office in a military coup and went into exile. He was sworn-in by the President Asif Ali Zardari at a function in an ornate hall at the Presidency.

During his oath ceremony, he pointed to work towards improvement of the falling economy, electricity blackouts and an end to American drone Strikes in the tribal areas.

Nawaz Sharif party PML-N made a landslide victory in the General Elections conducted in May 2013 by receiving 244 votes in favour of the 342 seat Parliament.

VC Shukla

Vidya Charan Shukla, a former Union Minister and Congress veteran from Chhattisgarh, died on 11 June 2013 of multiple organ failure. 84 years old VC Shukla was battling with injuries in Gurgaon Hospital after a
Maoist attack on group of Party leaders on 25 May 2013. He was shot three times during the Maoist trap of a convoy of cars carrying top Congress leaders of the state coming from a rally in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar
district.

A Brief Insight into VC Shukla’s Career

  • VC Shukla belonged to an old Congress family and was one of the famous Shukla brothers of undivided Madhya Pradesh. His father, Ravi Shankar Shukla, was the first Chief Minister of reorganised Madhya Pradesh.
  • At 28 years of age he won his first Lok Sabha election.
  • He was elected to the Lok Sabha nine times.
  • He first became a minister in 1966, when he was 37 years old, in Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s cabinet.
  • He held many important portfolios in his long career span which includes Communications, Home, Defence, Finance, Planning, Information & Broadcasting, Civil Supplies, External Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs and Water
    Resources.

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