At 94, Ram Jethmalani Announces Retirement From Legal Practice

“The previous and the current governments, both have let down the nation very badly,” said the veteran jurist.

File photo of veteran lawyer Ram Jethmalani. 

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Eminent jurist and former union minister of law Ram Jethmalani announced his retirement from a nearly 76-year-long career in law, on Saturday. At the same time, he claimed, as per a TOI report, that the present NDA-led government had “let down” the nation.

Speaking at the felicitation ceremony of the new Chief Justice of India, Justice Dipak Misra, Jethmalani said, as per a TOI report:

I am here just to tell you I am retiring from the profession but I am taking on a new role as long as I am alive. I wish to combat corrupt politicians that have been brought into the position of power and I hope the condition of India will take good shape.

He called the present state of the government a “calamity”.

Jethmalani also said, at the function organised by the Bar Council of India:

The country is not in a good shape. The previous and the current governments, both have let down the nation very badly. It is the duty of the members of the bar and all good citizens to rise to this great calamity.

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