Call it a deliberate slipup or peer rivalry, but prominent lawyer faces of the Congress media team chose to stay away from the national convention of lawyers organised by Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who heads the party’s legal and human rights department.
Prominent lawyers Manish Tewari and Jayanthi Natarajan, who are also spokespersons of the party, were conspicuous by their absence at the convention addressed by top Congress leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, party president Sonia Gandhi and union ministers Pranab Mukherjee, P. Chidambaram and M. Veerappa Moily.
Tewari and Natarajan were not among the speakers and were apparently not interested in just being listeners. Two other prominent lawyer faces of the party – Kapil Sibal and Anand Sharma – too were not present.
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