President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday directed that the portfolios of the Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs be assigned to Arun Jaitley.
“The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has directed to assign the portfolios of the Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs to Shri Arun Jaitley,” read a statement from Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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For past few months, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal held additional charge of the Finance Ministry as Jaitley recovered from a kidney transplant surgery.
The Union Minister, Shri @arunjaitley on his way to his room in North Block to resume the charge of the Ministry of Finance and Corporate Affairs in New Delhi today:@PIB_India @MIB_India @DDNewsLive @airnewsalerts pic.twitter.com/JbQ5oCccNn
— Ministry of Finance (@FinMinIndia) August 23, 2018
Goyal was handed over the additional charge of Finance Ministry after Jaitley underwent the procedure at Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on May 14. As interim finance minister, Goyal chaired two meetings of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council.
In April, Jaitley said that he was being treated for kidney-related problems and was working from a “controlled environment” at home.
“I am being treated for kidney-related problems and certain infections that I have contracted. I am therefore currently working from controlled environment at home. The future course of my treatment would be determined by the doctors treating me,” he had tweeted.