POOR HEALTH MAY NOT LET JAITLEY CONTINUE AS FM

India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is unlikely to continue in his current role due to poor health as Prime Minister Narendra Modi begins his second term, according to four sources with knowledge of the matter.

The sources said that Jaitley, 66, is unlikely to take up any offer to continue in the top job steering Asia’s thirdlargest economy as his health has deteriorated over the past few months.

“He is definitely not taking the post of the finance minister simply because he is very unwell,” one of the sources, who did not want to be named, told Reuters.

“If at all, he might take up a less stressful role.” Jaitley did not return messages. His mobile phone didn’t ring. —Reuters