PM Modi recalls his friend Arun Jaitley at his first death anniversary

Jaitley is remembered by Modi Ji

Monday, 24th August 2020

Today, PM Narendra Modi fondly remembered his dear late friend and Cabinet colleague Arun Jaitley on the occasion of the latter’s 1st death anniversary. Modi while talking of Jaitley said that his late friend had served the country quite diligently in his lifetime.

"On this day, last year, we lost Shri Arun Jaitley Ji. I miss my friend a lot. Arun Ji diligently served India. His wit, intellect, legal acumen and warm personality were legendary. Here is what I had said during a prayer meeting in his memory," Modi ji tweeted while at the same time posting a video of a speech delivered by him at the meeting of condolence held last year for Mr. Arun Jaitley.

Besides Modi Ji, other renowned BJP party leaders, including the country’s Home Minister Amit Shah and the BJP party president, J P Nadda, paid their respective tributes to the late Mr. Jaitley.

A major BJP leader and a chief member of the BJP party's brain trust for many decades, Arun Jaitley was a very active and articulate leader of the BJP party’s ideologies and policies and lovable persona as well as affable manners got him several friends across a vast political spectrum.

Jaitley had served as Union finance minister for the first Narendra Modi government and had worn many hats in his public life, from that of an advocate’s to a cricket administrator’s to a politician’s.

Last year, Mr. Arun Jaitley had breathed his last after battling against a lengthy phase of illness. He was 66 years old at the time of his death.

Source: Times of India