‘Contributions of leftist lawyers not acknowledged’
The contributions made by leftist lawyers to the development of Constitutional law have not been documented well enough, Orissa High Court Chief Justice Dr. S Muralidhar said on Sunday while urging law researchers to make efforts to examine and write about it.
Justice Muralidhar said that all ideologies should be welcome in legal field and contributions of people who believe in a particular ideology should not be
shunned merely because one does not subscribe to that ideology.
"I earnestly plead with law researchers, the contributions of leftist lawyers or lawyers who shared leftist ideologies, to the development of Constitutional law has not been written about enough," he said.
In this regard, he also observed how people steeped in political ideologies have contributed immensely to law, taking the examples of Senior Advocates Arun Jaitley and Viswanath Pasayat.
"Late Arun Jaitley for instance was a student leader, part of ABVP, became a very successful lawyer and distinguished himself in political life.