Kapil Sibal

Congress leader Kapil Sibal announced to quit party and filed his nomination for the Rajya Sabha seat on Samajwadi Party (SP) ticket. On May 24, the ex-congress leader filed his nomination in presence of the SP President Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow. He said, "It is important to be an independent voice in parliament. If an independent voice speaks up then people will believe it is not from any political party".

The Supreme Court said that it will hear the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by senior journalists N Ram and Sashi Kumar to probe the Israeli Spyware Pegasus scandal. The petition was followed by reports that said that the spyware was used to snoop on several politicians, journalists, and activists. The issue was tabled by Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal on July 30 to Chief Justice N V Ramana.

Congress leader Kapil Sibal, who had recently criticized the party for its poor performance in Bihar, has now said the party was not "an effective alternative". Besides Bihar, he also talked about Congress' abysmal performances in Gujrat and Madhya Pradesh. Bringing up the topic of leadership, he added, "How can a party function without a leader for one and half years." He said there was definitely something wrong with the party.

Kapil Sibal posted an angry tweet, in which he alleged that Rahul Gandhi said the leaders who wrote the letter had "colluded with BJP". The former Union minister and a senior Congress member is one of the 23 leaders who wrote a letter to Sonia Gandhi demanding for reforms in the leadership. He later withdrew his statement saying, "was informed by Rahul Gandhi personally that he never said what was attributed to him".