Arun Jaitley

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Arun Jaitley (2015)

Arun Jaitley ( Hindi अरुण जेटली Aruṇ Jeṭalī ; * December 28, 1952 in New Delhi ; † August 24, 2019 there ) was an Indian lawyer and politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and was from May 26, 2014 to May 30, 2014 May 2019 Finance Minister and Defense Minister in the Modi I cabinet .

Life

Degree and lawyer

Jaitley, whose father was also a lawyer, came from a family that after the partition of India was forced out of the day to Pakistan of belonging part Punjab relocate to India. After attending school, he completed a law degree at the University of Delhi . As a student, he began his political engagement in a movement against corruption. During his studies he was also involved in 1974 as chairman of the local student union (Delhi University Students Union) and at the same time as chairman of the student organization of the Federation of Hindu Nationalists RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) . After Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in 1975 , Jaitley was taken into so-called “preventive detention” for 19 months.

After graduating, Jaitley was admitted to the bar in 1977 and later admitted to the Supreme Court of India . As a lawyer, he also represented directors of Hindi films in addition to The Coca-Cola Company and thus acquired a large fortune, which he most recently stated at 13 million euros .

In 1989, Jaitley was appointed Additional Solicitor General of the Government with the title of Senior Advocate and served in that capacity until 1990.

In June 1998 he was a member of the delegation to the United Nations General Assembly during the adoption of the Declaration on Drugs and Money Laundering Laws. In addition to his legal work, he gave lectures and lectures on various legal topics such as IT convergence , broadcasting law, disinvestment and reforms of the constitution of India .

Minister of State, Deputy of the Rajya Sabha and Minister of the Union

Vajpayee cabinet

On June 13, 1999, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee appointed him Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in its cabinet and held this position until September 30, 2000. At the same time, he was Minister of State between December 10, 1999 and July 2000 Ministry of Disinvestment. During this time he was elected in April 2000 as a candidate for the BJP as a member of the Rajya Sabha , the upper house of the Indian parliament .

After serving as Minister of State in the Ministry of Law, Justice and Corporate Affairs from July 23, 2000 to November 6, 2000, he became Minister of Law, Justice and Corporate Affairs himself on November 7, 2000 and held this ministerial office until July 1, 2002 out. At the same time he was Minister of Shipping from March 20, 2001 to September 1, 2001.

After being a representative of the Union government in talks with representatives of the government of Jammu and Kashmir and other groups regarding the transfer of powers in this state in July 2002, he was appointed a member of the University Court of the University of Delhi on July 29, 2002 was a member until January 29, 2003.

After Jaitley was a member of the House of Lords committees for home affairs and foreign affairs from January 1 to 29, 2003, he was reappointed to the cabinet of Prime Minister Vajpayee on January 29, 2003 as Minister of Law and Justice (Union Cabinet Minister for Law and Justice) and at the same time as Minister for Trade and Industry (Union Cabinet Minister for Commerce and Industry) . He held these ministerial posts until the end of Vajpayee's term of office on May 20, 2004. As trade minister, he led India in the resistance against the industrialized countries in the disputes of the World Trade Organization (WTO) over free market access .

General Secretary of the BJP and leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha

He then became General Secretary of the BJP in July 2004 and held this position until June 2009. He was also a member of the Upper House Committees for Privileges and Trade between August 2004 and May 2009 and also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Interior Ministry from October 2004 to May 2009. At the same time, from March 2005 to March 2010, he was again a member of the House of Lords Committees for Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs. He has been a member of the Indian Council of World Affairs since January 2006

In April 2006 Jaitley was re -elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha in a by-election and served on the Joint Parliamentary Committee between August 2006 and December 2009 to examine the constitutional and legal positions of the Office for Profit.

After his re-election as a member of the Rajya Sabha in the parliamentary elections in India in 2009 , he took over the position of opposition leader there on June 3, 2009 . Subsequently, in July 2009 he became a member of the Upper House Committee for General Affairs and in August 2009 both a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee for the exhibition of portraits and statues of national leaders and parliamentarians in the Parliament building (Sansad Bhavan) as well as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Ministry of the Interior. Since December 2009 he has also been a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee for the maintenance of the hereditary character and the development of the Parliament building and since August 2012 as a member of the Railway Convention .

"Super-Minister" in the Modi cabinet

Following the election, which led to a landslide election victory for the BJP, Jaitley was appointed Union Cabinet Minister of Finance and Union Cabinet Minister of Defense in his cabinet on May 26, 2014, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi became the most influential minister in Modi's cabinet.

death

After the parliamentary elections in 2019 , which were successful for the BJP , Jaitley renounced a new ministerial office in the Modi II cabinet presented on May 31, 2019 . He justified this with his poor health, which required his full attention.

Jaitley, who is known to have suffered from long-term diabetes mellitus , was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital in New Delhi on August 8, 2019 with breathing problems , where he died on August 24, 2019. Indian politicians from various directions, including in particular those of the BJP, gave addresses of condolence.

On August 26, 2019, his remains were with full state honors on the Nigambodh Ghat according to Hindu ritual cremated .

Web links

Commons : Arun Jaitley  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ashok Sharma: Obituary: Arun Jaitley, politician and lawyer who was prominent in India's economic reform. In: The Scotsman . August 26, 2019, accessed on August 27, 2019 .
  2. ^ India: Ministries, etc. In: rulers.org. Accessed August 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Citing ill-health, Arun Jaitley opts out of ministerial position. The Hindu , May 29, 2019, accessed June 1, 2019 .
  4. ^ Arun Jaitley: Former India finance minister dies. In: BBC News . August 24, 2019, accessed on August 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Arun Jaitley funeral: BJP titan cremated with full state honors as rains pour down. In: India Today . August 25, 2019, accessed on August 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Jaitley, Arun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES अरुण जेटली (Hindi)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH New Delhi
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 2019
Place of death New Delhi