New Delhi: The family of former finance minister and veteran BJP leader Arun Jaitley has refused to receive the pension he received. For this, his wife has written a letter to Deputy Speaker of the Upper House M. Venkaiah Naidu. In which she says that the pension to Arun Jaitley should be donated to the employees whose salary is less. Jaitley's family would have received about three lakh rupees as a pension.
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Sangeeta Jaitley, the wife of the late BJP leader, wrote a letter to Venkaiah Naidu saying, 'Following the same path that Arun used to do, I urge Parliament to give the pension of a late MP to the families of the needy people of the institute whom Arun has served for two decades. That is, Jaitley's pension should be distributed to Class IV employees of Rajya Sabha. I am sure Arun would have had the same wish".
A copy of the letter has also been sent to PM Narendra Modi. Arun Jaitley, one of the veteran BJP leaders, took his last breath at the AIIMS Hospital in Delhi on 24 August at the age of 66. He was admitted in the ICU for several days in AIIMS. He had the responsibility of important ministry like the Finance Ministry. In addition, he was the Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. He was elected a member of the Rajya Sabha four times.