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Lawyers strike against Higher Education Bill hits judicial work | Lawyers across the country sat on strike against a controversial
Higher Education and Research Bill, on Wednesday, alleging that it would take
away important academic regulatory powers. Judicial activities in the lower and
higher courts were severely affected as the lawyers abstained from work to protest
against the proposed legislation. Lawyers in Faizabad burnt a copy of the proposed
Higher Education Bill. "We have burnt a copy of the Higher Education Bill. We
demand that the Higher Education Bill should not be passed because this will be
an attack on the lawyer's profession. The foreign advocate would get the allowance
to practice in India and we will be forced to work under them,” said president
of the bar association of Faizabad, Janardan Dubey. The lawyers would continue
their strike on Thursday as well. Lawyers in Allahabad too supported the strike
called by the Bar Council of India. President of Allahabad Bar Council, V. P.
Shrivastava said that the Bill was a direct attack on their independence and the
lawyers all over India were united in the strike. “All the advocates have agreed
to the fact that this bill is a direct attack on the independence of the Indian
lawyers that is why we all are supporting the strike call,” he said. Lawyers in
Patna city too burnt the copy of the controversial bill and shouted slogans against
the HRD Minister Kapil Sibal. President of the Lawyers Association, Yogesh Chandra
said the Bill was against the federal structure of the country. “This Bill will
take away the powers of deciding the legal education of the country from the Bar
Council of India. All the powers like the law course, syllabus, colleges will
be snatched away from an elected body and will be given to a nominated commission
which is entirely anti-democratic,” Chandra said. The other bills proposed by
the Centre and objected by the lawyers are the Foreign Educational Institutions
(Regulations of Entry and Operations) Bill, 2010, and the National Law School
Bill, 2011.
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