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im 057 www.alumni.du.ac.in / The University of Delhi Alumni eZine 7 2019 Longtime Cabinet Minister Arun Jaitley Passed away 24.08.2019 Arun Jaitley BCom Hons 1973 SRCC LLB 1977 CLC Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs 2014 – 2019 Leader of The Opposition Rajya Sabha 2012 – 2014 Cabinet Minister 1999 – 2004 President DUSU1974 - 1977 President Delhi and District Association DDCA 1999 - 2013 Additional Solicitor General of India 1989 - 1990 GulshanGrover : the best thing about him was that he never changed his behavior towards his friends . C K Khanna BCCI Acting President : Who yaaronkeyaarthay and he was good at every – thing he did . He had been a cricket enthusiast since college days . Professor SimritKaur SRCC Principal : Jaitley was closely associated with the college because he was a member of its governing body Vijay Goel : I and Arun Jaitley had a 48 – year – long bond . I met him for the first time in 1971 in SRCC .Today , Arun Jaitley has left us in a young age . Jaitley sahab’s demise is a personal loss for me , and the party as well as the country will find it difficult to fill the place left empty after his death . HT 25.08.2019 Pankaj Vohra :Arun was a friend of friends, and maintained his long standing relationships with his contemporaries and juniors from the university. Arun Jaitley was elected the DUSU President in 1974 Arun was extremely fond of fine cuisine and his favourite restaurants in Connaught Place included Delhi University reformed the way it used t conduct embassy - whose owner was his classmate in school - and the Kwlaity eatery . students union elections and allowed all students to He would never forget to acknowledge the role of some of his senniors such as Mujib and Raj vote , Arun Jaitley played an instrumental role n making Kumar Jain in shaping his initial political career . that possible . The Sunday G 25.08.2019 ShashiTharoor : “ Jaitley’s talent for conciliation , comradeship will be sorely missed in our HT 25.08.2019 increasingly polarized politics,” Outlook 09.09.2019 .