Citing health reasons, outgoing Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday wrote to PM Narendra Modi informing him that he wanted to opt out of the new Modi Cabinet that would be sworn in on Thursday (May 30).
In his letter, Union Minister Arun Jaitley asked PM Modi to allow him to ‘not be a part of any responsibility, for the present, in the new Government.”
Jaitley also shared the letter on Twitter.
I have today written a letter to the Hon’ble Prime Minister, a copy of which I am releasing: pic.twitter.com/8GyVNDcpU7
— Arun Jaitley (@arunjaitley) May 29, 2019
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Jaitley, who has been undergoing treatment for a health ailment, said in the letter to the Prime Minister that he should be allowed a ‘reasonable time for myself, my treatment and my health’ and thus should not be inducted in the new Cabinet.
Jaitley has been ill for the past few months, and in February this year, he returned from the US where he had gone for medical treatment.