Manish Tewari is an Indian member of parliament and prominent legal advocate. At this luncheon he discussed his legal and political careers and participated in an informal Q&A session with students.
This event is co-sponsored by the Georgetown University India Initiative and Center for Asian Law at Georgetown Law.
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Manish Tewari is the member of parliament from Anandpur Sahib, Punjab. He is the national spokesperson for the Indian National Congress (INC) Party and formerly served as a member on the Parliamentary Standing Committees of External Affairs, Law and Justice, and Defence. He also served on the Parliamentary Consultative Committees of the Ministries of Defence and Law and Justice and as the secretary of the Foreign Affairs Department of the INC. In addition, Tewari served as the minister of information and broadcasting for the Government of India. He is a practicing lawyer in the Supreme Court of India and managing partner in Delhi law firm Minister Tewari and Associates, as well as a distinguished senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center.