【New Delhi】The Bharatiya Janata Party's campaign slogan may have been Abki baar, Modi sarkar(The Modi government in this time.), but, as Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi jocularly told Arun Jaitley in Parliament's Central Hall, the reality is "Abki baar, Jaitley sarkar".
Jaitley, 61, is at the centre of politics in New Delhi. The most powerful leader after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he runs two heavyweight ministries - finance and defence -, his people are in charge of key portfolios, and he has a big say in policy and political matters. All party spokespersons flock to him for advice. He is Modi's ace troubleshooter on almost all issues. A BJP worker describes him as Modi's Chanakya (like Chandragupta's advisor, Jaitley is a Brahmin). Environment and Information & Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar calls him a "super strategist". If somebody knows how to work the levers of power in Raisina Hill it is Jaitley; Modi is still an outsider. "A precious diamond," is how Modi described him at an election rally in Amritsar from where Jaitley contested - and lost - his first election ever.
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