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India Appoints Piyush Goyal As Interim Finance Minister

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By Easterneye.Biz StaffJan 23, 2019
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INDIA'S minister for railways and coal has today (23) been named the country's interim finance minister.

Piyush Goyal will take on the additional portfolio as finance minister Arun Jaitley is in the US for medical treatment.

India's interim budget is due to be presented next week, ahead of a scheduled general election in May.

However, Jaitley will not present the budget.

The Indian government has not commented on Jaitely's medical condition.

“The president of India, as advised by the prime minister, hereby directed that during the period of indisposition of Arun Jaitley, minister; the portfolios of minister of finance and minister of corporate affairs held by him, be temporarily assigned to Piyush Goyal, in addition to his existing portfolios,” said a statement from the Indian president’s secretariat today.

“Further, as advised by the prime minister, Arun Jaitley be designated as minister without portfolio during the period of his indisposition or till such time he is able to resume his work as minister of finance and minister of corporate affairs,” the release added.

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