Former Union Minister Ashwani Kumar to attend Pantheonisation ceremony of jurist Robert Badinter in Paris

Ashwani Kumar, former Union Minister of Law and Justice within the second time period of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) authorities, and senior advocate of the Supreme Court, will attend the ‘Panthéonisation ceremony’ of eminent French jurist Robert Badinter in Paris on October 9. Mr. Kumar has thanked French President Emmanuel Macron for the invitation.

Panthéonisation is the ceremonial act of interring (burying) or commemorating a departed particular person on the Panthéon in Paris. It is an honour conferred by the French Republic on people who’ve made distinctive contributions to that nation in numerous fields. Among the eminent French personalities interred on the Panthéon in Paris are Voltaire, Jean‑Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Louis Braille, and Marie and Pierre Curie.

“Mr. Badinter was a distinguished humanist, jurist, and a statesman of France who was a relentless crusader for the abolition of the dying penalty. I had the honour of understanding Mr. Robert Badinter, a former Justice Minister of France and President of the Constitutional Council of France, for the final a number of years, and had the chance of visiting him in Paris on a number of events in recent times,” Mr. Kumar mentioned in a press assertion.

“His selflessness and passionate espousal of human rights and public causes distinguished him as an amazing son of the French Republic. I thank President Macron and the French authorities for in accordance Mr. Robert Badinter the distinctive honour of being interred within the Pantheon in Paris,” Mr. Kumar mentioned.