Jaitley back as Fin Min, to attend meet on Pulwama attack

February 15, 2019 08:46

Union minister Arun Jaitley, who had undergone treatment in the United States for around a month, will resume charge as the finance minister on Friday, sources said.

He will attend a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security today to discuss the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama that left nearly 39 troopers of the Central Reserve Police Force dead and many critically injured.

A suicide bomber had rammed a car into a bus carrying the CRPF troopers in the deadliest attack in decades on security forces in Jammu and Kashmir.

In Jaitley's absence, his portfolios of finance and corporate affairs were temporarily assigned to railway minister Piyush Goyal in addition to his existing portfolios.

Jaitley returned to India on February 9 after being treated in New York. -- ANI

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