The former Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley\u00a0 has died in a New Delhi hospital after a prolonged illness.<\/p>\n
Mr Jaitley, 66, was a close aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and a senior member of the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/p>\n
Jaitley had held the finance portfolio in Modi\u2019s Hindu nationalist-led government since 2014 but chose not to run for reelection because of poor health.<\/p>\n
He was diabetic and had bariatric surgery in 2014. He received a kidney transplant in 2018 and travelled to the US last January for unspecified medical care.<\/p>\n
He is survived by his wife, son and daughter.<\/p>\n
As finance minister during the BJP’s first term, he was credited with a landmark goods and services tax bill – India’s most significant tax reform since independence.<\/p>\n
Jaitley also carried out some of Modi\u2019s more controversial economic initiatives, including changes to tax and welfare and overnight demonetisation, which took 86% of cash out of circulation, leaving hundreds of millions of people temporarily without funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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