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Friends want to rename Jaitley's gossip point in Lodhi garden after him

Congress' Rajeev Shukla and former attorney general Mukul Rohatgi, are planning to write to the New Delhi Municipal Council to declare the corner where Jaitley used to sit as "Jaitley's point"

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In this Dec 28, 2014 file photo, Arun Jaitley can be seen having a sip of tea with morning walkers on his 62nd birthday at Lodhi Garden in New Delhi. Photo: PTI

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Ever since he rejoined active politics in the late 1990s, the late Arun Jaitley would gather each morning with his friends from different fields at a point in Lodhi Gardens. They would take a round or two, and then sit for an extended gossip session. The group included Jaitley's friends from his school and college days, lawyers, journalists, businessmen, and politicians of various parties. One among this group would bring tea for the rest every day. On Sundays, there would be samosas and kachoris too. Now, some of his friends, including the Congress' Rajeev Shukla and former attorney general Mukul

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