A politician and an optimist | The Indian Express

A politician and an optimist | The Indian Express

Written by Surjit S Bhalla |Updated: August 31, 2019 11:36:34 am

The writer is Contributing Editor at The Indian Express, and Consulting Editor at Network 18

A politician and an optimist

Arun Jaitley will be missed for his friendships across political camps, and contribution to policymaking. Above all, he was a man of ideas

The adoption of GST was not Jaitley’s brainchild, but he certainly was the one who made it possible. (Illustration: C R Sasikumar)

Arun Jaitley, a keen legal, political, economic and cricket mind, passed away way before his time at the age of 66. He was also a friend and mentor to many, and was part of the BJP trinity of Modi-Jaitley-Shah. Jaitley had many leadership attributes, but in my opinion, in the main, he was a policy ideas man.