Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday celebrated his 62nd birthday with his friends in Delhi’s Lodhi garden.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi also extended his wishes to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on his birthday.
Dear Arun ji, wishing you a very happy birthday. May you be blessed with the best health & a long life. @arunjaitley
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 28, 2015
Jaitley previously held the cabinet portfolios of Commerce and Industry and Law and Justice in the National Democratic Alliance government (1998-2004).
From 2009 to 2014, he was Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and is also a former Minister of Defence.
Jaitley was an Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) student leader in the Delhi University Campus in the seventies and rose to be President of the University Students’ Union in 1974.