इतिहास में
अरुण जेटली
1952–2019
2014-19 के वित्त मंत्री: GST परिषद से पारित कराया और दिवाला एवं शोधन-अक्षमता संहिता लिखी। आपातकाल में इंदिरा गांधी का पुतला जलाने पर उन्नीस महीने जेल काटी, बाद में अदालत में आधार का बचाव किया, और आख़िरी सार्वजनिक शब्दों में अनुच्छेद 370 हटाने को 'ऐतिहासिक' बताया।
बीच से सबसे दूर बाज़ार पर — बाज़ार-संचालित विकास की तरफ़।
ये कहाँ खड़े हैं
अरुण जेटली सातों पैमानों पर, एक छोर से दूसरे छोर तक।
रिकॉर्ड, पैमाने दर पैमाने
हर जगह इस आधार पर तय हुई है कि क्या कहा और क्या किया गया — घोषणापत्र, क़ानून, सरकार चलाने का रिकॉर्ड — और उन्हीं सवालों पर परखी गई है जो यह क्विज़ पूछता है।
सबूत का हवाला अंग्रेज़ी में
Jan Dhan Yojana built financial-inclusion infrastructure — enabling access rather than expanding direct entitlement — inside a ministry otherwise focused on fiscal consolidation
Chief negotiator of GST (rolled out 1 July 2017 after a decade of stalled consensus, commentators crediting his handling of opposition-ruled states), architect of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code for the bad-loans crisis, and the government's lead public defender of 2016 demonetisation — structural, institutional reform comparable in weight to Vajpayee's market-orientation record but not exceeding it: Vajpayee's government actually sold VSNL, BALCO, Hindustan Zinc and Maruti, where Jaitley's own signature disinvestment push, Air India in 2018, found no buyer during his tenure and closed without a sale
No personal quota-expansion or quota-opposition record distinct from BJP's institutional line (EWS 10%, existing quotas kept, no caste census); read here off the party line he administered rather than an act of his own
Wrote his final public blog on 6 August 2019, days before his death, calling the Article 370 abrogation 'a monumental decision towards National integration' — a direct, on-record, near-terminal endorsement, not an inferred position
Arrested 26 June 1975, the morning after the Emergency, for burning an effigy of Indira Gandhi as an ABVP/DUSU leader, and held nineteen months under preventive detention in Tihar — against, decades later, his role as the government's chief defender of the 2018 Supreme Court Aadhaar verdict, framing privacy as 'a fundamental right but not an absolute right' and citing ₹900 billion a year saved by eliminating fake beneficiaries
No record; not his portfolio
GST required extensive Centre-state bargaining through the Council he chaired, a genuinely consultative process — but its structural effect was states ceding independent tax-setting power for a share of a centrally pooled and administered levy, the same centralising mechanism cited in this roster's own placement of Narendra Modi
और आप कहाँ खड़े हैं?
यही सवाल ख़ुद हल कीजिए और अपनी सात रीडिंग पाइए — उन्हीं पैमानों पर, जो आपने अभी पढ़े।
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