Former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley passes away

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Former finance minister and a stalwart of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Arun Jaitley (66) passed away. Jaitley was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi earlier this month after he complained of palpitations and restlessness.

One of the prominent leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP), Arun Jaitley became the Finance Minister & Minister of Corporate Affairs in the Narendra Modi government in 2014. He also served as a member to the Board of Governors of Asian Development Bank (ADB). 

The veteran BJP leader has worked as the Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs of the Government of India from 2014 to 2019. He stepped down as finance minister in January due to ill health, just months before elections that returned BJP to power. 

Jaitley has been a senior advocate in the Supreme Court and a former Additional Solicitor General of India. He previously held the cabinet portfolios of Finance, Defence, Corporate Affairs, Commerce and Industry and Law and Justice in the Vajpayee government and Narendra Modi government.

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