Arun Jaitley's first official engagement would be a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security which will discuss the Pulwama attack.
Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday resumed his role as the Finance Minister, four days after his return from the United States, where he was undergoing medical treatment.
Jaitley had left for the US on January 13 and returned on February 9.
President Ram Nath Kovind, as advised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has directed that the Finance and Corporate Affairs portfolios be assigned to Union minister Arun Jaitley, a Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson said on Friday.
Jaitley tweeted on Friday: "Resumed work at the Ministry of Finance today (Friday). Thankful to Shri Piyush Goyal who discharged the responsibility at the MoF diligently & competently."
He first attended the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meeting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had called to discuss the terror attack in south Kashmir's Pulwama district that killed around 40 CRPF personnel, and then came to North Block - the seat of the finance ministry.
After attending the CCS meeting at the prime minister's residence, he drove to North Block after the noon sitting in the front seat of Mercedes sedan, instead of his usual Tata Safari SUV.
Jaitley missed presenting the sixth and final Budget of the Narendra Modi government before the general elections. In his absence, the charge of the finance ministry was given to railways minister Piyush Goyal.
Jaitley, 66, had flown to New York on January 13 for the treatment, after being reportedly diagnosed with soft tissue cancer, which required surgery. Subsequently on January 23, the charge of the Finance Ministry and Corporate Affairs was given to Goyal on temporary basis.
Sources said he underwent a surgery in the US on January 22 for a reported soft tissue cancer in his left leg. He returned to India on February 9 after undergoing skin grafting. Jaitley, they said, is recovering well but needs a stick for support to stand or sit down and walks with a slight limp.
This was his first overseas visit after he underwent renal transplant surgery on May 14, 2018, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
He had stopped attending office at the beginning of April last year due to his kidney ailment and was back in North Block on August 23, 2018. Even then, Goyal had manned the ministry for about 100 days.
In September 2014, Jaitley underwent bariatric surgery to treat weight gain that he suffered because of a long-standing diabetic condition.
(With PTI inputs)
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