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Why late FM Arun Jaitley was trending on social media

Recounting in a podcast that he informed the then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley before flying out of India to London in March 2016, fugitive liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya has given the Opposition one more opportunity to corner the ruling BJP and theNarendra Modi government in the upcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament.

When Mallya had told reportersoutside a London court that was hearing arguments over his extradition to Indiain 2018 that he met Jaitley and "repeated my offer to settle with the banks", the late Finance Minister rubbished the claims in a strongly worded social media post

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