Arun Jaitley
5 articles on India Vote Kar are tagged “Arun Jaitley”, published between August 2018 and May 2019. They are filed mainly under BJP, Congress, Election commission 2019. They are listed below, newest first, followed by related coverage and topics.
Arun Jaitley asks Modi to leave him out of new cabinet, citing health
Former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to include him in the new cabinet, pointing to his health. He made the request in a letter to Modi from New Delhi on May 29. What the letter said Jaitley wrote that he had faced serious health problems over the previous year and a half, and that his doctors had helped him recover from most of them. The senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader said he had already made the same request to Modi in person beforeRead More
Jaitley says Rahul Gandhi got an M.Phil without a master’s degree
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday, April 13, hit back at the Congress for questioning Smriti Irani’s educational qualifications, alleging that Congress president Rahul Gandhi had obtained an M.Phil without a master’s degree. What Jaitley wrote In a Facebook post, Jaitley said the Congress focused on the BJP candidate’s education while ignoring that a public scrutiny of Rahul Gandhi’s academic record might raise many unanswered questions. He wrote that Gandhi “got an M.Phil without a Masters degree”. Swamy’s claims Jaitley’s comments came shortly after BJP MP Subramanian Swamy, in aRead More
Arun Jaitley defends electoral bonds as white money with better transparency
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley defended electoral bonds on Sunday, saying in a blog post that they were meant to curb the use of black money in election funding, the same goal that electoral trusts proposed under the UPA-II government had sought to achieve. Jaitley’s argument Jaitley said reports indicated that about Rs 1,500 crore had been seized in action by the Election Commission and the revenue authorities. He argued that critics were targeting the bonds rather than the electoral trusts only because the bonds came from the NDA and theRead More
Arun Jaitley resumes as Finance Minister, attends CCS meeting after Pulwama attack
Union Minister Arun Jaitley, who returned from the United States last week after medical treatment, was set to take charge again as Finance Minister on Friday, official sources said. His first engagement was a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) at 9.15 a.m. Security meeting The CCS was convened to review the situation and discuss India’s response to Thursday’s terror attack on a convoy of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). At the time of the report, at least 45 personnel were said to have been killed andRead More
Arun Jaitley Poses 15 Questions to Rahul Gandhi on Rafale, Alleges False Campaign
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday attacked Congress president Rahul Gandhi over the Rafale fighter jet deal, posing 15 questions in a blog post and accusing the Congress of running a false campaign on the issue. Jaitley’s charges In the post, titled “15 Questions that Expose Congress Party’s Falsehood on Rafale”, Jaitley accused Gandhi and the Congress of holding up the deal for more than ten years and putting national security at serious risk. He said every claim the party had made about the price and the procedure was “completelyRead More
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