Outgoing finance minister Arun Jaitley has decided not to immediately join Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second Cabinet because of health reasons in a development that can have important bearing on the dynamics of the Union Cabinet which will be sworn in on Thursday.
In a letter to the PM, Jaitley referred to “serious health challenges” that have troubled him for the last 18 months to say that though “he had emerged out of most of them”, he needed to take a break. “I am writing to formally request you that I should be allowed a reasonable time for myself, my treatment and my health, therefore, not be part of any responsibility, for the present, in the government.”
Outgoing finance minister Arun Jaitley has decided not to immediately join Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second Cabinet because of health reasons in a development that can have important bearing on the dynamics of the Union Cabinet which will be sworn in on Thursday.
In a letter to the PM, Jaitley referred to “serious health challenges” that have troubled him for the last 18 months to say that though “he had emerged out of most of them”, he needed to take a break. “I am writing to formally request you that I should be allowed a reasonable time for myself, my treatment and my health, therefore, not be part of any responsibility, for the present, in the government.”