New Delhi: Condoling the demise of former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Saturday said he was faithful to his ideology till his last breath and the BJP owes him for being what it is today.

Sibal said, "We have lost someone whom the nation needed for many years." Sibal said Jaitley was a man of exceptional qualities and abilities and was wedded to an ideology since his university days and was "fateful to that ideology till his last breath". Jaitley was a man who breathed politics, understood politics and was committed to the country, Sibal said.