Former FM Arun Jaitley, BJP's key troubleshooter, passes away

As finance minister, Arun Jaitley oversaw the roll-out of GST- probably the biggest tax reform since Independence - and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

Arun Jaitley, former finance minister and a key troubleshooter for the Narendra Modi government, died on Saturday at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the national capital. He was 66.

A press statement from AIIMS, where he was put on life support after being admitted on August 9, announced his demise at 12.07 pm.

Jaitley, the principal architect of the Modi government that took office in May 2014, had been in poor health for the past few years, which took a turn for the worse since January when he was diagnosed with soft-tissue sarcoma, a rare cancer,