Former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley passed away on Saturday at of 66. Jaitley was mitted to AIIMS in New Delhi on August 9. Arun Jaitley's unfortunate demise marks end of an extraordinary career that has witnessed him holding incredibly important positions at various levels, both in government and outside. Condolence wishes poured in for Jaitley from all corners. Even cricketing fraternity came forward to offer ir last respects to Arun Jaitley and among m was Virat Kohli. 

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Virat Kohli shares his fond memories of Arun Jaitley

After untimely demise of Jaitley, Virat Kohli took to social media and wrote that he was shocked and sdened to hear about passing away of Shri Arun Jaitley Ji. Kohli n dressed Jaitley as a good person who was always willing to help ors. Virat Kohli n ded that veteran BJP leer h taken out his precious time back in 2006 and h visited Indian skipper's home to pay condolences to Kohli's late far. Virat Kohli n blessed Jaitley's soul. 

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Arun Jaitley's early life and political career:

Born in Delhi on December 28, 1952, Arun Jaitley studied at St Xavier's school and went on to gruate with a degree in commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce in 1973, and went on to pursue an LLB at Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. At that time, he is also said to have considered becoming a Chartered Accountant.

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Active in politics since his time as a student,  Arun Jaitley was a member of ABVP, and served as President of Delhi University Students Union in 1974. Like a number of his contemporaries in BJP, Jaitley was put under preventive custody for fighting Emergency as part of JP movement, clampdown on him lasting 19 months. 

He rose to become president of Delhi ABVP and its All India Secretary, He became president of youth wing of Jan Sangh which he h joined later.

Parallel to his political commitments, Jaitley also practiced law, before Supreme Court and numerous High Courts. He was appointed ASG in VP Singh government in 1989 and has also appeared in several corporate matters. He stopped practicing law only in June 2009 on becoming leer of Opposition in Rajya Sabha. In Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government, he h served as Minister for Law and Justice.

He is best kwn for having served as Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs in first Narendra Modi government, has also held portfolios of Defence and Information and Brocasting. It was Jaitley who rolled out GST in 2017 which saw India becoming a unified market for goods and services for first time, and was also first chairman of GST council, being widely credited for forging consensus leing to Constitutional amendment that eventually passed GST Bill.

Jaitley opted out of second Narendra Modi government, having gone to US for two spells of treatment for a medical ailment in 2018-19. He has, however, regularly taken to Facebook and Twitter to pen blogs on various significant issues in country.

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