Dr. Adish C. Aggarwala (Gold medalist, Ph. D. in Law and designated Senior Advocate) is serving as Additional Advocate General of State of Punjab, as well as Senior Central Government Counsel in the Supreme Court of India and Delhi High Court. Mr. Aggarwala is a dynamic high profile lawyer, writer and social activist.

Other current involvements include: President of International Council of Jurists; Chairman of All India Bar Association; Convener of Indian Council of Jurists; Chairman of India Legal Information Institute; Vice President of Supreme Court Bar Association; Secretary General of All India Senior Advocates Association and Vice-Chairman of Bar Council of Delhi. He has been Executive Council Member and General Council Member of National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He is also Academic Council Member of Chanakya National Law University.

He has been the youngest elected Vice-Chairman of the Bar Council of India, which is the apex statutory body of lawyers constituted under the Advocates Act, 1961. As in-charge of legal education in India, Dr. Aggarwala was responsible for the closure of more than 150 sub-standard law schools across the country. He is credited with raising standards of legal education and has established 140 new law schools.

He has the rare distinction of creating new records in Bar Association elections from Sub-Division to Supreme Court levels. In 1998, for the first time in the history of Bar Councils, two brothers Dr. Adish C. Aggarwala and Mr. Satish Aggarwala won the election at the same time.

He has also been singularly conferred with the honour of looking after the matters of Govt. of India as its Senior counsel, under the Prime Ministership of Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, Mr. V.P. Singh, Mr. Chandra Shekhar, Mr. P.V. Narasimha Rao, Mr. H.D. Deve Gowda, Mr. I.K. Gujral, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee and Dr. Manmohan Singh. Whenever there is change of Prime Minister, Dr. Aggarwala resigns, the government accepts his resignation and then again appoints him as its counsel. He has had the rare distinction of serving as Addl. Advocate General of Punjab as well as Uttar Pradesh as also Senior Central Government Counsel in the Supreme Court and Delhi High Court simultaneously – all three states remaining under the governance of different political parties opposed to each other.

Started writing from his school days, Dr. Aggarwala was the Editor of his college magazine. He also edited an English fortnightly from the soil of Haryana for ten years. The special issues of the fortnightly were released by the then Presidents of India Mr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed and Giani Zail Singh, the then Prime Ministers Mrs. Indira Gandhi and Mr. Rajiv Gandhi and the then Information & Broadcasting Minister Mr. Inder Kumar Gujral.

Dr. Aggarwala has authored three books, of which the forewords and prefaces were contributed by the then Vice-President of India Mr. K.R. Narayanan, then Finance Minister Mr. V.P. Singh, then Law Ministers Mr. Ashok Sen and Dr. Hansraj Bhardwaj. These books (and revised editions) were released by the then Presidents Giani Zail Singh and Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, the then Prime Ministers Mr. Rajiv Gandhi and Mr. Chandra Shekhar, Mr. P.V.Narasimha Rao and Mother Teresa.

His latest book titled “The Constitution of India” has been released in 2008 by the Prime Minister of India and was recieved by Mrs. Pratibha Patil, The President of India at Rashrapati Bhanwan on July 23rd 2009. The Hon’ble Chief Justice of India Dr. K.G. Balakrishnan contributed its Foreword. His other two books titled (1) “Saint Mother Teresa -A Living Legend” and (2) “India -My India” will be released in the year 2009.

Dr. Aggarwala has widely travelled in India and abroad (120 countries). He has represented India in many international conferences and seminars. He has also been the representative of the Prime Minister in such conferences and seminars. He has had the rare opportunity of being the guest of the White House to have a breakfast meetings with both, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. and twice with President Clinton. He has participated in more than 5000 functions in different parts of the world as special guest of honour. Special write-ups on him have appeared in international dailies, TVs and Radio.