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.
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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.