Arun Jaitley, (born December 28, 1952, New Delhi, India—died August 24, 2019, New Delhi), Indian lawyer, politician, and government official who served as leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Rajya Sabha (upper chamber of the Indian parliament) in 2009–14. In 2014 he joined the cabinet of the BJP-led government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Jaitley was known as an eloquent speaker and his political and professional career was largely noncontroversial. Jaitley was first elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2000, representing the state of Gujarat, and he was re-elected in 2006 and 2012. During his first term he introduced bills for two amendments to the Indian constitution: the first (enacted in 2002) froze the number of seats in parliament until the year 2026 based on districting in the 1991 national census, and the second (2004) imposed penalties on members of parliament who defected from one party to another during their terms and limited the number of members of state ministry councils.

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