Arun Jaitley, the former finance minister and BJP’s veteran leader, passed away on Saturday at AIIMS hospital in New Delhi. He was admitted in AIIMS, on August 9, had been put on life support. He was being monitored by a multidisciplinary team of doctors.
A lawyer by profession, Arun Jaitley previously held the cabinet portfolio as Finance, Defence, Corporate Affairs, Commerce and Industry and Law and Justice in the Vajpayee government and Narendra Modi government.