Jaitley resumes charge of finance, corporate ministries
Arun Jaitley resumed charge of the Union ministries of finance and corporate affairs on Friday after about a month and attended the cabinet committee on security (CCS) meeting on the Pulwama terror attack as his first official engagement.
“The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has directed to assign the portfolios of the Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs to Shri Arun Jaitley,” a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement said. After resuming work at the f i nance ministry, Jai t l e y tweeted: “Thankful to Shri Piyush Goyal who discharged the responsibility at the MOF [ministry of finance] diligently & competently”.
Union minister for railways and coal Piyush Goyal was given additional charge of finance and corporate affairs from January 23 this year when Jaitley was away in the US for medical treatment. Jaitley left for the US on January 13, 2019 and returned on February 9. This was the second time Goyal was entrusted with the finance ministry in Jaitley’s absence. The first time was on May 14, 2018 when Jaitley was medically indisposed.
A little over three months later, the President of India reassigned the portfolios of finance and corporate affairs to Jaitley on August 23, 2018.
NEW DELHI:: AFTER RESUMING WORK JAITLEY THANKED PIYUSH GOYAL FOR DISCHARGING THE RESPONSIBILITY DILIGENTLY