RS deputy chairman election: Arun Jaitley likely to attend House today in his first appearance during Monsoon Session

New Delhi: Leader of the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, who stepped aside as finance minister in May to undergo a kidney transplant, is likely to attend the House on Thursday to participate in the election for the deputy chairman’s post, sources said. [caption id=“attachment_4471775” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] File image of Arun Jaitley. PTI[/caption] This will be the Jaitley’s first appearance in the Parliament during the ongoing Monsoon Session. “Jaitleyji will be present in the house on Thursday to participate in the voting,” a source said. Jaitley, 65, who stopped attending office at the beginning of April, underwent a renal transplant operation on 14 May. On that day the charge of his ministry was given to Minister for Railways and Coal Piyush Goyal on an interim basis. Jaitley, a Rajya Sabha MP since 2000, was re-elected to the Upper House from Uttar Pradesh in March. Jaitley had undergone a bariatric surgery soon after the BJP government came to power at the Centre in 2014. The surgery was to treat weight gain that he suffered because of a long-standing diabetic condition.