'Delighted to be back home': Jaitley returns from US after treatment

February 09, 2019 16:21

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who could not present the Interim Budget this year after he had to fly to the US for treatment, tweeted today for the first time on returning home.

Though he was not in the thick of political business when he was in the US, he was regular in sending his point across continents with tweets and blog posts, as back home the political temperature rose with the Lok Sabha elections just months away.

"Delighted to be back home," the finance minister tweeted this afternoon.

Jaitley, 66, stopped attending office at North Block in April last year. A month later he was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Science in Delhi for treatment. He returned to office in August last year before he went to the US in January.

While in the US, Jaitley kept up pressure on the opposition on a range of issues, from the controversy over selection of CBI chief to the 'Grand Alliance' of opposition parties, which he called a club of "nawabs of negativity".

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