Law Students may Soon Intern at Parliament

Law Students may Soon Intern at Parliament

Proposal handed over to Speaker

New Delhi (PTI): Students and politics have been a potent combination in India's political scene since time immemorial. Of late, this equation has opened new vistas for to-be lawmakers as students of a premier law school may soon be rubbing shoulders with the country's leaders in Parliament.

Students of the prestigious National Law School of India University (NLSIU) in Bangalore had approached the CPI-M expressing their interest to intern at the party's headquarters in Delhi.

"The Dean and Vice-Chancellor of NLSUI had requested CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury to let students intern with the Left party and subsequently with Parliament," sources close to Yechury told PTI.

It all began with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) letting students from IIM-Ahmedabad to intern in their research office a few months back.

Dr A Jayagovind, Vice-Chancellor NLSIU, Bangalore handed over the detailed proposal to Yechury in November 2006 during the latter's visit to the institute for discussion on Office of Profit Bill with the students, Rahul Singh, in-charge of internship NLSUI, told PTI over phone from Bangalore.

The party's Polit Bureau member and Rajya Sabha MP, in turn, forwarded the request to Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee and Rajya Sabha chairman Bhairon Singh Shekhawat seeking permission to let the law students intern with Parliament, he said - PTI.

Law Students may Soon Intern at Parliament

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