Arun jaitley biography

Arun Jaitley

Indian politician and attorney (–)

Arun Jaitley (28 December – 24 August ) was an Indian politician and attorney. A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Jaitley served as the Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs of the Government of India from to Jaitley 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.

From to , he served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. He was a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India. He oversaw the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax which brought the country under one GST regime, demonetisation, merger of Railway budget with general budget and introduction of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.[3][4][5] Jaitley decided not to join the second Modi Cabinet in , due to health issues.[6][7]

He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, posthumously in in the field of Public Affairs.[8][9]

Early life

Arun Jaitley was born on 28 December in Delhi into a PunjabiBrahmin family which migrated from Lahore during Partition of India.[10][11] His father Maharaj Kishen Jaitley was a lawyer and mother Ratan Prabha Jaitley a housewife.[10] He studied at St.

Xavier's Senior Secondary School, Delhi from to [12] He graduated with the honours degree in commerce, from Shri Ram College of Commerce of Delhi University in He passed his LL.B. degree from Faculty of Law, University of Delhi in [13][14][15]

Jaitley was the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) student leader at the Delhi University Campus in the seventies and rose to be the President of the Students Union of Delhi University in During the period of proclamation of Internal Emergency (–77) when fundamental rights were suspended, he was under preventive detention for a period of 19 months.[16] He was a prominent leader of a movement against corruption launched in the year by Raj Narain and Jayaprakash Narayan.

He was the convener of the National Committee for Students and Youth organisation appointed by Jai Prakash Narayan.[17] He was also active in civil rights movement and helped found PUCL Bulletin along with Satish Jha and Smitu Kothari.[14][18] After being released from jail, he joined the Jan Sangh.

In , being the convener of the Loktantrik Yuva Morcha at a time when the Congress suffered defeat, Jaitley was appointed the president of the Delhi ABVP and All India Secretary of the ABVP. He was then made the president of the youth wing of the BJP and the secretary of the Delhi Unit in , a short time after joining the party.[19]

Legal career

Since , Jaitley had been practising law in the Supreme Court of India and several High Courts in India.[20] In January , he was designated as a Senior Advocate by the Delhi High Court.[21][22][23][24]

He was appointed Additional Solicitor General of India by the V.

P. Singh government in and did the paperwork for the investigations into the Bofors scandal.[18][19] His clients cover the political spectrum from Sharad Yadav of the Janata Dal to Madhavrao Scindia of the Indian National Congress to L. K. Advani of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Several publications on legal and current affairs were written by him.[20] A paper on law about corruption and crime in India was presented by him, before the Indo-British Legal Forum.[20] He was appointed the Government of India's delegate to the United Nations General Assembly Session in June which approved the Declaration on Laws Relating to Drugs and Money Laundering.[21][20]

Jaitley had also appeared on behalf of giant multinational corporations such as PepsiCo against Coca-Cola and in various other cases in India.[25][26] After having been the Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Jaitley represented Pepsi in in a case where the Supreme Court of India admonished and imposed stiff fines on 8 companies for painting advertisements on ecologically fragile rocks along the Manali-Rohtang road in the Himalayas.

"The companies were also issued show-cause notices as to why exemplary damages should not be imposed on them for indulging in environmental vandalism."[27] In , Jaitley appeared on behalf of Coca-Cola in a Rajasthan High Court case.[28]

Given his political duties as Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Jaitley stopped practising law in June [29]

Political career

Jaitley had been a member of the national executive of Bharatiya Janata Party since [30] He became the spokesperson of the BJP during the period preceding the general election.

Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting (–)

On 13 October , after the Vajpayee Government of the BJP led National Democratic Alliance came to power, he was appointed Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge).[20] In addition he was appointed Minister of State for Disinvestment (Independent Charge).

The disinvestment ministry was created for the first time in accordance with the policy of disinvestment under the World Trade Organization regime.[20] On 23 July following the resignation of Ram Jethmalani as the Union Cabinet Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, he took over his ministry as an additional charge.[20]

Union Minister of Law and Justice (–04)

In November Jaitley was made a Cabinet Minister for the Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs and Shipping.

The Ministry of Surface Transport was bifurcated and he was appointed as the first Minister of Shipping. He demitted the office of the Minister for Shipping with effect from 1 September and as Union Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs on 1 July [20] He then served as the General Secretary of the BJP and its national spokesman.[20] He worked in this capacity until January He rejoined the Union Cabinet as the Minister of Commerce & Industry and Law & Justice on 29 January [19] With the defeat of the National Democratic Alliance in May , Jaitley returned to his legal career and worked in the Supreme Court.[31]

Leader of the Opposition, Rajya Sabha (–14)

He was chosen as the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha on 3 June by L.K.

Advani. On 16 June , he resigned from the post of General Secretary of the BJP, as per his party's One Man One Post principle. He was also a member of the Central Election Committee of the party.[32] As the leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, he participated in the debates on the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha and also supported Anna Hazare in his Indian anti-corruption movement for the Jan Lokpal Bill.[19] He successfully introduced the 84th amendment to the Constitution of India in , freezing parliamentary seats until , and the ninety-first amendment to the Constitution of India in , penalising defections.[33][34] However, being in the party since , he never contested any direct election until He was the BJP candidate for the Amritsar seat in the Lok Sabha (replacing Navjot Singh Sidhu) for the general election, but lost to the Indian National Congress candidate Amarinder Singh.

Arun jaitley blog: Arun Jaitley (28 December – 24 August ) was an Indian politician and attorney. A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Jaitley served as the Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs of the Government of India from to

He was elected as a Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat. He was re-elected to the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh in March [35]

On 26 August , he said (outside Parliament) "There are occasions when an obstruction in Parliament brings greater benefits to the country." This statement was considered to have given legitimacy to obstruction by the parliament in contemporary Indian politics.

After forming a government in , the BJP government has faced disruption and obstruction in parliament multiple times, and the opposition have referred to this statement as a legitimising that floor strategy.[36][37]

Union Finance Minister (–19)

On 26 May , Jaitley was selected by newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be the Minister of Finance, the Minister for Corporate Affairs and the Minister of Defence, in his cabinet.[38][39] Analysts cited Jaitley's "part-time" focus on defence as a simple continuation of the policies of the previous government.[40] According to a WikiLeaks cable by Robert Blake, the Charge at the US Embassy, to his government, When raised on the question of Hindutva, Jaitley had argued that Hindu nationalism "will always be a talking point" for the BJP and characterised this as an opportunistic issue.[41] Jaitley later clarified that "the use of the word opportunistic in reference to nationalism or Hindu nationalism is neither my view nor my language.

It could be the diplomat's own usage."[42]

During the Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Arun Jaitley agreed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's assertions that the idea of reservations on the basis of religion is fraught with danger and was against giving reservations to Muslim Dalits and Christian Dalits as it might impact demography.[43][44] He also served as a member to the Board of Governors of Asian Development Bank.[45] In November , Jaitley said that personal laws governing marriages and divorces should be subject to fundamental rights, as constitutionally-guaranteed rights are supreme.[46] He announced the Income declaration scheme, in September [47]

During his tenure as the Finance Minister of India, the government demonetised the ₹ and ₹ currency notes, with the stated intention of curbing corruption, black money, fake currency, and terrorism from 9 November [48] He oversaw the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) which brought the country under one GST regime.

On 20 June , he reaffirmed that the roll-out of GST overseen by him as the finance minister was on track.[49]

Out Leadership recommended Arun Jaitley as one of the experts and leaders who openly speak on LGBT+ issues.[50]

On 29 May , in a letter to Prime Minister Modi, Arun Jaitley cited his health as a reason for not taking an active role in the formation of the new government, effectively declining a role as a minister in the second term of Prime Minister Modi.[51]

In January Jaitley generated controversy when he accused the Central Bureau of Investigation of investigative adventurism in the ICICI Bank – Videocon fraud case.[52] The Central Bureau of Investigation had named Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar as beneficiaries in the financial fraud, in which Venugopal Dhoot, the promoter of Videocon had fraudulently transferred part of the loan received from ICICI Bank to the Kochhar's business entreprise.[53] Jaitley stated that naming the corrupt bank officials will not help in the investigation.[54] Previously in September , Jaitley had warned CBI on corruption cases involving political leaders from Gujarat.[55]

Personal life

Arun Jaitley married Sangeeta, daughter of former Jammu and Kashmir finance minister Girdhari Lal Dogra, on 24 May They have two children, Rohan Jaitley and Sonali Jaitley; the latter married Jaiyesh Bakhshi.[56][20][57][58] Both his children are lawyers.

He had two siblings.[59]

Illness and death

Jaitley had a series of health-related issues and underwent multiple surgeries leading into his deteriorating health and subsequent death in In , he underwent a coronary artery bypass surgery after he was hospitalised with high blood pressure.[60] In , when he weighed kilograms (&#;lb), a gastric bypass surgery was performed on him aimed at reducing his weight.

Doctors confirmed that Jaitley had been "suffering from diabetes for nearly two decades" then, and that the said procedure was the best option for patients with "uncontrolled diabetes".[61] In May , he underwent a kidney transplant surgery.[62]

In February , the media reported that Jaitley had been diagnosed with a rare form of soft-tissue sarcoma and was undergoing treatment in the US, although it was termed a "regular medical check-up".[63] On 9 August, he was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (AIIMS) after he complained of "breathlessness".[64][65] On 17 August, it was reported that he was on life-support.[66]

By 23 August, his health had deteriorated.[67] Jaitley died at &#;p.m.

(IST) the following day, aged [68][69] He was cremated at Nigam Bodh Ghat on 25 August.[70] The Indian Cricket team wore black armbands for a day during the test match with the West Indies, to condole Jaitley's death.[71]

Legacy

On 12 September , Delhi's Feroz Shah Kotla stadium was renamed as Arun Jaitley Stadium at a function held at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in memory of Jaitley.

The decision to name the stadium after him came as he was once the president of DDCA and also the vice-president of the BCCI.[72][73]

On 28 December , Home Minister Amit Shah unveiled a statue of Arun Jaitley at the Arun Jaitley Stadium.[74]

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