Arun Jaitley died on 24 August 2019 at AIIMS Hospital in Delhi. Then his age was 66 years. He was battling illness for a long time. It is said that due to the death of Jaitley, there was silence in the market of Karnali. Saddened by his demise, the shopkeepers had closed their shops.
Arun Jaitley
Former Finance Minister of the country and veteran leader of BJP Arun Jaitley Has a deep connection with Karnali village of Gujarat. This village comes in Vadodara district. There is Kuber Bhandari temple in this village. Jaitley had great faith in this temple. When Jaitley was a Rajya Sabha MP from here, he had adopted four villages here, Karnali was one of them. The remaining three villages were Pipaliya, Wadia and Bagalipura. All these villages were part of Karnali Panchayat. He did many development works in these villages.
Arun Jaitley died on 24 August 2019 at AIIMS Hospital in Delhi. Then his age was 66 years. He was battling illness for a long time. It is said that due to the death of Jaitley, silence had spread in the entire market of Karnali. Saddened by Jaitley’s death, the shopkeepers closed their shops. The people of the village still say that at that time there was no bank in the village. But the result of Jaitley’s efforts was that for the first time a National Bank branch opened in the village.
Jaitley’s ashes were immersed in Karnali
Narmada river flows from near Karnali. After Jaitley’s death, his ashes were brought here. At that time Jaitley’s entire family had also reached Karnali. Scholar Brahmins of Chandod village near here worshiped the ashes of Jaitley by chanting mantras. Then immersed the ashes in the holy water of Narmada at Somnath Ghat.
Villagers used to talk to Jaitley without hesitation
People tell that whenever Jaitley used to come to the village, he used to call the villagers. The villagers also used to share everything with him without any hesitation. The villagers say that they did not realize that they were talking to a leader. He used to talk like a member of his family. When there was a program of immersion of Jaitley’s ashes, many youths of the village wore T-shirts with Jaitley’s picture on them. He said that he is wearing this to pay tribute to his leader.
BJP fought the Gujarat elections under the leadership of Jaitley.
In 2017, there was an election for the Gujarat Assembly. Then the Bharatiya Janata Party, expressing confidence in him, made him the election in-charge of Gujarat. During this election, Jaitley visited many districts of the state. He added youth to strengthen the party. At that time the Patidar movement was in full swing in the state. Many Patidar leaders had turned against the BJP. The party suffered a slight loss in the elections. Despite this, the BJP government was formed in the state.
Jaitley held many important positions in the BJP government.
Arun Jaitley was a lawyer before joining politics. He held many important positions in the BJP government. He was also a minister in Narendra Modi’s cabinet. Became Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat in 2006. He was the Defense Minister from 13 March 2017 to 3 September 2017. He was the Minister of Information and Broadcasting from 9 November 2014 to 5 July 2016. In 1974, he was elected the President of Delhi University Students’ Union.
Source: www.tv9hindi.com”