New Delhi: After Sushma Swaraj's demise on August 7, Arun Jaitley was the last liberal standing in Narendra Modi and Amit Shah's Bharatiya Janata Party. This morning, he too is gone. After M. Venkaiah Naidu became India's Vice President and Sushma Swaraj's death, Jaitley was the only BJP leader who could walk up to any Opposition leader despite fiercely attacking them in the Parliament.

Even when Jaitley critiqued Communist Party of India-Marxist General Secretary Sitaram Yechury for blocking several government bills in the Rajya Sabha in the Modi 1.0 government, one could find them share a hearty laugh soon after in the Central Hall. Jaitley took a sharp personal dig calling it 'tyranny of the unelected'. But it didn't come in way of the bond the two shared in personal life.