Arun Jaitley
Arun Jaitley (28 December 1952 - 24 August 2019) was an Indian politician. He was the Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs from 2014 to 2019. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Minister of Defence from in 2014 and in 2017. From 2009 to 2014 he was the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha.
Jaitley had diabetes. In January 2019, Jaitley was diagnosed with a rare form of soft-tissue cancer and had treatment in New York.
On 9 August 2019, he was hospitalized in New Delhi under critical condition for respiratory problems. He died on 24 August at the hospital, aged 66. The cause of death was problems caused by diabetes.
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1952 births
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Deaths from diabetes
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Organ transplant recipients
Deaths from soft-tissue sarcoma
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