{"id":301758,"date":"2018-08-23T06:46:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T06:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301758"},"modified":"2018-08-23T06:46:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T06:46:39","slug":"arun-jaitley-returns-after-3-month-break-resumes-charge-of-finance-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/arun-jaitley-returns-after-3-month-break-resumes-charge-of-finance-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Arun Jaitley returns after 3 month break, resumes charge of Finance Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-299339 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Arun-Jaitely-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Arun-Jaitely-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Arun-Jaitely-441x420.jpg 441w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Arun-Jaitely.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday resumed his work after a three-month break from surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the officials, \u201cPresident Ram Nath Kovind on 23rd\u00a0August, directed to assign the portfolios of the Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs to Union Minister Arun Jaitley.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jaitely, who stopped attending the office in April had undergone a renal transplant operation in May 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In his absence, the charge of ministry was given to Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on an interim basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier this month,\u00a0 Jaitley had attended parliament to participate in the vote for the Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">During his long break, Jaitley was active on social media, held video conferences with officials,\u00a0wrote blogs on various economic and non-economic issues\u00a0and addressed events remotely.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday resumed his work after a three-month break from surgery. According to the officials, \u201cPresident Ram Nath Kovind on 23rd\u00a0August, directed to assign the portfolios of the Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs to Union Minister Arun Jaitley.\u201d Jaitely, who stopped attending the office in April had undergone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2879,4360,4359,407],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301762,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301758\/revisions\/301762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}