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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Kolkata: Asking West Bengal to broaden its manufacturing base to create more jobs, finance minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said the Centre will support states in each rupee of their investments and there is a
Kolkata: Asking West Bengal to broaden its manufacturing base to create more jobs, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Centre will support states in each rupee of their investments and there is a need
Kolkata: Asking West Bengal to broaden its manufacturing base to create more jobs, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Centre will support states in each rupee of their investments and there is a need
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