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Arun Jaitley flies to US for check-up
It’s his 1st overseas visit since kidney transplant in April.
New Delhi: Union finance minister Arun Jaitley has left for US for a medical check-up following a kidney transplant last year.
Mr Jaitley is going to present crucial interim budget on February 1, which will highlight the steps taken by the Modi government on economic front during its tenure.
Mr Jaitley, 66, who had a kidney transplant operation and follow-up check-ups at AIIMS last year, left for the US on Sunday night for a “regular medical check-up”.
This is Jaitley’s first overseas visit since his kidney ailment was confirmed in April last year.
He was supposed to be a key note speaker at the 7th C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture organised by National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) on Tuesday evening.
The new government will present the Budget for the fiscal in July. Jaitley is unlikely to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland next week as his name does not figure in the latest list of registered participants.
Mr Jaitley was last week named the publicity head of his party — BJP’s election team. Mr Jaitley had on May 14, 2018, undergone a renal surgery and was out of the finance ministry for nearly 100-days.
During this period, Railway and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal was given additional charge of the finance ministry.
A Rajya Sabha MP since 2000, he was re-elected to the Upper House from Uttar Pradesh in March this year. He is also the leader of the House.
