New Delhi: Union Minister Arun Jaitley Saturday returned from the United States, where he was undergoing medical treatment. "Delighted to be back home," Jaitley tweeted. Jaitley has been active on social media tweeting and writing Facebook posts and had also met reporters through a video call from New York and fielded questions on the Budget. He also gave interviews on the subject.
In an interview in New York after the Budget presentation, Jaitley said he was on recovery course and return to India in time to reply to the Budget debate in Parliament will depend on when his doctors allow him to leave. "It depends on my treatment here, which is all over. I am on the recovery course. It's when my doctors allow me to go back. As of present, as I understand, Piyush Goyal will be replying (to the Budget debate in Parliament)," he said.
The Budget session of Parliament ends on February 13, and debate on the Interim Budget has been taken up in the Lok Sabha. Jaitley, 66, had last month flown to New York for the treatment after being reportedly diagnosed with soft tissue cancer which required surgery.