{"id":309357,"date":"2019-02-15T05:07:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T05:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309357"},"modified":"2019-02-15T05:07:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T05:07:16","slug":"arun-jaitley-resumes-charge-as-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/arun-jaitley-resumes-charge-as-finance-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Arun Jaitley resumes charge as Finance Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302765 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/arun-jaitley-bank-300x206.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/arun-jaitley-bank-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/arun-jaitley-bank-768x527.png 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/arun-jaitley-bank-100x70.png 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/arun-jaitley-bank-218x150.png 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/arun-jaitley-bank-696x478.png 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/arun-jaitley-bank-612x420.png 612w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/arun-jaitley-bank.png 915w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Minister Arun Jaitley resumed the office of the finance minister on Friday, nearly three weeks after he relinquished the portfolio on January 23 to undergo treatment in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Jaitley\u2019s absence, minister for railways and coal Piyush Goyal has been acting as the finance minister. Goyal presented the Interim Budget on February 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He is currently attending a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security to discuss the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Pulwama that left nearly 44 personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) dead and many critically injured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jaitley tweeted on Thursday, \u201cAttack on CRPF in #Pulwama, J&amp;K is a cowardice &amp; condemnable act of terrorists. Nation salutes martyred soldiers and we all stand united with families of martyrs. We pray for speedy recovery of the injured. Terrorists will be given unforgettable lesson for their heinous act.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Arun Jaitley resumed the office of the finance minister on Friday, nearly three weeks after he relinquished the portfolio on January 23 to undergo treatment in the United States. In Jaitley\u2019s absence, minister for railways and coal Piyush Goyal has been acting as the finance minister. Goyal presented the Interim Budget on February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2879,1506],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309357"}],"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=309357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309358,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309357\/revisions\/309358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}