New Delhi law minister to be AAP's Kapil Mishra, ex-Greenpeace, Amnesty campaigner

Wednesday, 10 June 2015 By Legally India News

“Kapil Mishra to be Delhi’s new Law and Tourism Minister,” tweeted @IndiaToday and others citing “sources” about who would replace Jitender Singh Tomar, as the former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) law minister was arrested by the police yesterday and resigned.

Mishra, vice chairman of the Delhi Jal Board, is a social entrepreneur and has worked with Greenpeace and Amnesty International, according to his Linked-in profile and Wikipedia. Between November 2012 and July 2013 he was networking and advocacy coordinator at Amnesty, head of the Northern Region of the Retailers Association of India for one year, policy officer and campaigner at Greenpeace for nearly two years, and a history at other NGOs such as Youth for Justice.

He tweets irregularly at @kapil_change.

Tomar’s predecessor was Somnath Bharti.

Kapil MishraJitender Singh TomarAam Aadmi Party (AAP)Somnath Bharti

Comments

error corrector 10 Jun 2015, 09:32
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Well.. he will be the law minister of entire Delhi and not New Delhi only. Please rectify.
Guest 10 Jun 2015, 16:03
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What is New Delhi Law Minister? Its Minister of NCT of Delhi. Come'on Kian!
kianganz 10 Jun 2015, 16:07
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Guyyyys, have you considered that the headline reads: that the "new Delhi law minister" is to be Kapil Mishra? Coz that's certainly what was intended, though can understand how it didn't come across ;)

Any reading of new Delhi as New Delhi was unintentional and perhaps could have been avoided by shuffling the headline around, but I assume everyone knows what's intended? :)
error corrector 12 Jun 2015, 08:29
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@Kian This is still confusing and appears to give a wrong picture. Why can't you just edit the headline to "new law minister of Delhi" and avoid the confusion
kianganz 12 Jun 2015, 08:33
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As a policy we generally resist making any stylistic changes to copy or headlines unless inaccurate and unless we absolutely have to (in part to resist silly changes requested by law firms frequently).

In this case not sure there's a need for a change. There's no such thing as a New Delhi law minister, so why the confusion? Is it so bad?
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