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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge connected Monday (November 24, 2025) said Justice Surya Kant’s elevation to the station of Chief Justice of India comes astatine a captious juncture for the justness system, and expressed assurance that nether his leadership, law values and nationalist spot successful the regularisation of instrumentality volition beryllium further reinforced.
Justice Kant, who has been portion of respective landmark verdicts, including connected abrogation of Article 370 removing Jammu and Kashmir’s peculiar status, took oath arsenic the 53rd Chief Justice of India connected Monday (November 24). He succeeded Justice B.R. Gavai.
“Extending my lukewarm wishes to Justice Surya Kant connected taking oath arsenic the 53rd Chief Justice of India. His elevation marks the opening of a 14-month tenure astatine a captious juncture for our justness system,” Mr. Kharge said connected X.
“I americium assured that nether his leadership, Constitutional values, organization strength, and nationalist spot successful the regularisation of instrumentality volition beryllium further reinforced, advancing the committedness of justness for each citizen,” the Congress main said.
President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath to Justice Kant astatine a little ceremonial held astatine Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were among the elder leaders who attended the ceremony.
