Former finance minister Arun Jaitley breathed his last on August 24, 2019. He was 66. Jaitley had been undergoing treatment at the AIIMS for several weeks. In the Vajpayee government (1998–2004), he held the cabinet portfolios of Finance, Corporate Affairs, Commerce and Industry and Law and Justice. Since 1991, he has been a member of the national executive of BJP and became the spokesperson of the saffron party during the period preceding the 1999 Lok Sabha election. From 2009 to 2014 he served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. He is also a senior advocate in the Supreme Court. Since 1987, he has been practicing law before the Supreme Court of India and several High Courts in the country. Early life: In 1973, Arun Jaitley graduated with a honours degree in commerce, BCom from Shri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi. In 1977, he passed his LLB degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. At the Delhi University, Jaitley was an Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) student leader and in 1974, rose to be the President of the Students Union of Delhi University. He was under preventive detention for a period of 19 months during the period of proclamation of Internal Emergency (1975–77). After getting out of jail, he joined the Jan Sangh.
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New Delhi, Jul 1: Finance Minister P Chidambaram today dismissed as “completely premature and ill-advised” the charge by BJP leader Arun Jaitley that the Cabinet's decisionon greater autonomy for CBI is “farcical” and a remedy
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Panaji, Jun 9 : BJP leader Arun Jaitley today said Narendra Modi is the "best possible card" for the party in the Lok Sabha elections and dismissed media speculation that L K Advani was opposed
New Delhi, June 4: BJP today charged that growing phobia of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Congress was behind CBI move to question IB in the Ishrat Jahan case and said such “misuse” of
New Delhi, June 1 : A day after two of its senior functionaries called it quits, the crisis-hit BCCI's Vice President Arun Jaitley said the next 24 hours could bring about a "significant" development in
New Delhi, May 24: Rattled by the spot-fixing scandal that has shaken Indian cricket, IPL Chairman Rajiv Shukla and BCCI vice-President Arun Jaitley today met Law Minister Kapil Sibal, demanding that a strong anti-fixing legislation
New Delhi, May 1: The rap the UPA government got from the Supreme Court was well deserved, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said Tuesday, while demanding that the CBI be included under the proposed Lokpal.His party
Hubli, Apr 29: Taking exception to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh describing Chinese incursion into eastern Ladakh as a "localised problem", BJP leader Arun Jaitley yesterday said the UPA government was treating it as a non-issue
Bangalore, April 9: Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley today said the party hoped to do “exceedingly well” and give a ”good fight” to Congress in the May five Assembly polls in Karnataka as it had
Bangalore, April 9: Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley Tuesday declined comment on the Narendra Modi versus Rahul Gandhi as-prime-ministerial-candidates debate but described the Gujarat chief minister as "an extremely popular" leader."I am not getting into
New Delhi, Apr 8: A private jet carrying BJP President Rajnath Singh and senior leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley made an emergency landing today at Delhi airport after it developed problems in its auto-pilot
New Delhi, April 5: Targeting UPA over its decision-making, BJP leader Arun Jaitley Thursday expressed apprehension about Prime Minister Manmohan Singh being able to implement his formulations on economic problems and stressed the government's elected
New Delhi, Mar 22: New Delhi: BJP leader Arun Jaitley yesterday accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of “blatantly interfering” in CBI's functioning and “crippling” it from carrying on its routine investigations for “stopping” CBI searches
New Delhi, March 14: Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley on Wednesday invoked a popular quote by James Bond to attack the government on the Italian marines issue."Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's
New Delhi, March 8: Continuing their attack on the Congress-led UPA government for allowing FDI in multi-brand retail, opposition parties Thursday accused it of working against the national interest, with the BJP asserting that it
New Delhi, Mar 7: Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley, Congress veteran Karan Singh and JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav have been selected for the 'Outstanding Parliamentarian Award', it was officially announced Wednesday.Jaitley, who is Leader of
New Delhi, March 6: Asserting that there was a credibility crisis in the Congress-led UPA government, leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley Wednesday said the "dual power centre" had affected the government's
New Delhi, Jan 23: Everything was going hunky-dory for BJP president Nitin Gadkari till Tuesday morning, with the RSS standing firmly behind him, when news came about the Income-Tax survey of investor companies of Mumbai
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