Jaitley calls Jaya

May 29, 2014 17:23

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley called Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalitha on Wednesday. It's the first high-level contact from the centre, from a ministerial level, no less. This is a marked difference from the UPA regime, where no Union Minister spoke to Jayalalithaa, and especially not former finance minister P Chidambaram.

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