‘100% with you during this difficult time’: Rahul Gandhi to Arun Jaitley as he flies to US for medical treatment

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley who had a kidney transplant operation and follow-up check-ups at AIIMS last year, left for the US on Sunday night for a "regular medical check-up".

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who sent his best wishes to Jaitley, said he and the Congress party stood with him and his family during this difficult period./ IMAGE: abpnews.abplive.in

New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi and many other politicians on Wednesday wished a speedy recovery to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley who left for the US for a medical check-up. 66- year-old Jaitley who had a kidney transplant operation and follow-up check-ups at AIIMS last year, left for the US on Sunday night for a "regular medical check-up". It is reported that he will be back by this weekend. This is Jaitley's first overseas visit since his kidney ailment was confirmed in April last year. Jaitley had stopped attending office at the beginning of April and he underwent a renal transplant operation on May 14, 2019. Arun Jaitley returned as finance minister on 23 August 2018, and during the next few months limited public interaction to ward off any infection. Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who sent his best wishes to Jaitley, said he and the Congress party stood with him and his family during this difficult period. "I'm upset to hear Arun Jaitley Ji is not well. We fight him on a daily basis for his ideas. However, I and the Congress party send him our love and best wishes for a speedy recovery. We are with you and your family 100% during this difficult period Mr Jaitley." Gandhi wrote on Twitter.

I'm upset to hear Arun Jaitley Ji is not well. We fight him on a daily basis for his ideas. However, I and the Congress party send him our love and best wishes for a speedy recovery. We are with you and your family 100% during this difficult period Mr Jaitley.

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) January 16, 2019

Others who posted messages for Arun Jaitley are-

Concerned to hear of FM Arun Jaitley being indisposed once again. He has been important communicator and interlocutor with the Opposition despite recent constraints. Pray for quick and full recovery to serve the nation.

— Salman Khurshid (@salman7khurshid) January 16, 2019

My father & all my @JKNC_ colleagues join me in wishing @arunjaitley Sb good health. We hope to see him back in the country & in the best of health very soon. God speed.

— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) January 16, 2019

Wishing and praying for speedy recovery @arunjaitley Ji! https://t.co/9r5cmzN55v

— Lalu Prasad Yadav (@laluprasadrjd) January 16, 2019

Jaitley has been the finance minister since Modi government came to power in May 2014. He had also held additional charge of the ministry of defence as well as that of the ministry of information and broadcasting. Last year, during his over four-month-long break, he was active on social media, writing blogs on various economic and non-economic issues. A Rajya Sabha MP since 2000, he was re-elected to the Upper House from Uttar Pradesh in March. Jaitley had undergone a bariatric surgery soon after the BJP government came to power at the Centre in 2014. The surgery, to treat weight gain that he suffered because of a long-standing diabetic condition, was first performed at Max Hospital, but he then had to be shifted to AIIMS because of complications.