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.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Arun Jaitley
- **image**: The official photograph of the Defence Minister, Shri Arun Jaitley (cropped).jpg
- **alt**: Arun Jaitley
- **office**: Minister of Finance (India), Minister of Finance
- **primeminister**: Narendra Modi
- **term start**: 26 May 2014
- **term end**: 30 May 2019
- **predecessor**: P. Chidambaram
- **successor**: Nirmala Sitharaman
- **office2**: Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Minister of Corporate Affairs
- **primeminister2**: Narendra Modi
- **term start2**: 26 May 2014
- **term end2**: 30 May 2019
- **predecessor2**: Sachin Pilot
- **successor2**: Nirmala Sitharaman
- **office3**: Ministry of Defence (India), Minister of Defence
- **primeminister3**: Narendra Modi
- **term start3**: 13 March 2017
- **term end3**: 3 September 2017
- **predecessor3**: Manohar Parrikar
- **successor3**: Nirmala Sitharaman
- **term start4**: 26 May 2014
- **term end4**: 9 November 2014
- **primeminister4**: Narendra Modi
- **predecessor4**: A. K. Antony
- **successor4**: Manohar Parrikar
- **office5**: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Minister of Information and Broadcasting
- **primeminister5**: Narendra Modi
- **term start5**: 9 November 2014
- **term end5**: 5 July 2016
- **successor5**: Venkaiah Naidu
- **predecessor5**: Prakash Javadekar
- **office6**: Leader of the House (Rajya Sabha), Leader of the House, Rajya Sabha
- **term start6**: 26 May 2014
- **term end6**: 11 June 2019
- **predecessor6**: Manmohan Singh
- **successor6**: Thawar Chand Gehlot
- **office7**: Leader of the Opposition (India), Leader of the Opposition, Rajya Sabha
- **term start7**: 3 June 2009
- **term end7**: 26 May 2014
- **predecessor7**: Jaswant Singh
- **successor7**: Ghulam Nabi Azad
- **office8**: Ministry of Law and Justice (India), Minister of Law and Justice
- **primeminister8**: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- **term start8**: 29 January 2003
- **term end8**: 22 May 2004
- **predecessor8**: Jana Krishnamurthi
- **successor8**: H. R. Bhardwaj
- **primeminister9**: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- **term start9**: 23 July 2000
- **term end9**: 1 July 2002
- **predecessor9**: Ram Jethmalani
- **successor9**: Jana Krishnamurthi
- **office10**: Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India), Minister of Commerce and Industry
- **primeminister10**: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- **term start10**: 29 January 2003
- **term end10**: 22 May 2004
- **predecessor10**: Arun Shourie
- **successor10**: Kamal Nath
- **office11**: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting
- **primeminister11**: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- **term start11**: 13 October 1999
- **term end11**: 30 September 2000
- **predecessor11**: Jaipal Reddy-
- **successor11**: Sushma Swaraj
- **office12**: Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
- **constituency12**: Uttar Pradesh
- **term start12**: 3 April 2000
- **term end12**: 24 August 2019
- **predecessor12**: Naresh Agrawal
- **successor12**: Sudhanshu Trivedi
- **constituency13**: Gujarat
- **birth name**: Arun Jaitley
- **birth place**: Delhi, India
- **death place**: New Delhi, India
- **party**: Bharatiya Janata Party
- **children**: 2
- **alma mater**: Faculty of Law, University of Delhi (LL.B.), Delhi University (B.Com),
- **awards**: Padma Vibhushan (2020) (posthumously)