TN govt appoints Vijay Narayan as advocate general

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu govt has appointed senior advocate Vijay Narayan as its advocate general. He will be representing the state govt in the Madras high court. He will succeed P S Raman, who resigned on Tuesday.

Narayan previously served as advocate general of Tamil Nadu during the AIADMK regime from 2017-2021. He graduated from Loyola College and completed his law degree at the erstwhile Madras Law College in 1982. Soon after, he joined the chambers of senior advocate P Chidambaram.

In 2004, he was designated as a senior advocate by the Madras high court. Vijay Narayan is the nephew of former attorney general for India K K Venugopal and grandson of senior advocate M K Nambiar. Historian and journalist Sardar K M Panikkar was his maternal grandfather.

He specialised in labour law, constitutional law, administrative law and commercial laws in the Madras high court, the Supreme Court and various other high courts. In 2012, he was appointed by the then Chief Justice of India as a member of the Chennai regional executive committee of the Indian Law Institute. In Feb 2026, he was appointed by the Chief Justice of the Madras as a general council member of the Tamil Nadu National Law University. He also served as the president of the historic Madras Bar Association (MBA).