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BCI co-chair asks Mishra to resign in 15 days
The Hindu··23 Aug
On 22 August 2026, Bar Council of India co-chair Y.R. Sadasiva Reddy wrote to chairman Manan Kumar Mishra asking him to resign within 15 days. The letter lists eight grounds, including a withdrawn 13 August note that had warned NALSAR's 2026 batch could be kept from enrolment. Mishra rejected the charges the same day.
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What It Means For You
- If you are in NALSAR's 2026 graduating batch, the 13 August enrolment warning was withdrawn the same day, and Saturday's letter treats that episode as one ground, not a live bar.
- Anyone paying a BCI college-approval fee should note Reddy asked for a halt on further such payments until an independent audit is done.
- If you planned to watch the BCI press meeting on 22 August, that event was shifted to 24 August.
What's Happening
- Reddy's six-page letter is an internal demand from a senior advocate who served with Mishra for about a decade, not a court order removing the chairman.
- Mishra told PTI the charges have no value among lawyers and that Reddy did not contest the last Karnataka bar council poll.
- The NALSAR note had followed a student campaign against Chief Justice Surya Kant as convocation chief guest, and Mishra later issued a letter of regret.
What The NALSAR Note Added To A Longer Fight
- Mishra has held the BCI chair continuously since 2012, a span Reddy called a departure from a rotational reading of the office.
- Reddy wrote that the August 13 direction was not placed before the full Council and had no Council resolution behind it.
- Student Bar Councils at some National Law Universities had already declined to share a platform with the chairman before Saturday's letter.
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