Piyush Goyal To Look After Finance Again In The Absence Of Unwell Arun Jaitley

Piyush Goyal has been appointed as interim Finance Minister and interim Minister of Corporate Affairs as Arun Jaitley is unwell and in the US for treatment . Goyal, however , will retain his existing portfolios of coal and railways.

According to media reports, Jaitley has been designated as a minister without a portfolio during his period of indisposition.

It may be re – called that Goyal was earlier given additional charge of the Finance Ministry in May 2018 for a period of three months when Jaitley underwent a kidney transplant at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

Union Minister Arun Jaitley, 66, had left for the United States on January 13 for a “regular medical check-up”. There have been reports ever since that he may not return to present the interim Budget on February 1.