(1923-09-14)14 September 1923 Shikarpur, Bombay Presidency, British India (present-day Sindh, Pakistan)
Died
8 September 2019(2019-09-08) (aged 95) New Delhi, India
Political party
Rashtriya Janata Dal (After 2016)
Other political affiliations
Bharatiya Janata Party (1980–85) Janata Dal (1989–93) Pavitra Hindustan Kazhagam (1995) Bharatiya Janata Party (2010–2013)
Spouses
Durga Jethmalani
(m. 1941)
Ratna Jethmalani
(m. 1947)
Residence(s)
2, Akbar Road, New Delhi, India[1]
Alma mater
S.C. Shahani Law College, Karachi- University of Bombay
Profession
Lawyer, Jurist, Professor of Law, Politician, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
Ram Boolchand Jethmalani (14 September 1923 – 8 September 2019) was an Indian lawyer and politician. He served as India's Union minister of law and justice, as chairman of the Indian Bar Council, and as the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association.
Jethmalani obtained his LL.B. degree at the age of 17 and started practising law in his hometown, Shikarpur, until the partition of India. The partition led him to move to Mumbai as a refugee where he began his life and career afresh. He announced his retirement from judicial profession in 2017.[citation needed]
Throughout his political career, Jethmalani worked for improving the relations between India and Pakistan, owing to his experiences as a refugee post-partition. He was elected as member of the Lok Sabha twice, on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) tickets, from the Mumbai North West constituency. He also served as the union minister of urban development in the first Atal Bihari Vajpayee ministry, against whom he later contested election in the 2004 Indian general elections from the Lucknow constituency. He later returned to BJP in 2010, and was elected to the Rajya Sabha on its ticket.
Jethmalani was awarded the Human Rights Award by World Peace Through Law in 1977. He authored books such as Big Egos, Small Men; Conscience of a Maverick; and Maverick: Unchanged, Unrepentant; among others. He also co-authored legal scholarly books on different fields of law.
^"Members Webpage – Rajyasabha". Rajyasabha, Parliament of India. Archived from the original on 29 May 2011. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
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