Arun Jaitley heads the finance and corporate affairs ministries and is a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Jaitley started his political career as a student activist and went on to become the Delhi University Students Union president in 1974.
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He was the BJP president from 2004 to 2009, and then served as the leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha from 2009 to 2014. Jaitley is a senior advocate in the Delhi High Court and was Additional Solicitor General of India in 1989-90.
Jaitley is in charge of the finance ministry as the government prepares for the final lap of economic consolidation in the run up to the 2019 general elections.
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