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: Lokesh Sharma, Managing Director of a company AAP had accused of taking huge commissions in the DDCA affair, on Friday issued a legal notice on the party seeking unconditional apology, failing which criminal
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New Delhi: Amid the ensuing slugfest over charges and counter-charges of corruption between the AAP and ruling BJP, party chief Amit Shah today summoned MP Kirti Azad, a party MP from Darbhanga, to apparently dissuade
New Delhi: Terming Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's response to its allegations of corruption as “vague”, the Aam Aadmi Party today put up "five specific" questions to Arun Jaitley.Contending that Jaitley was a “master of half
New Delhi: Escalating his attack on the Central government over CBI raids, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today claimed that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been directed to go after all Opposition parties
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today countered allegations of graft made by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and other members of the Aam Aadmi Party, saying charges of corruption under his tenure as President
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government today again accused Finance Minister Arun Jaitley of indulging in corruption in Delhi's cricket body and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to sack him."A free and fair probe
New Delhi: The Central government today backed Finance Minister Arun Jaitley saying he won't be resigning and there won't be any Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe against him over alleged financial irregularities in DDCA when
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