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2019 is an election for consolidation: Arun Jaitley

The Narendra Modi government's negotiator-in-chief and one of the BJP's key electoral strategists, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley explains how the 2019 poll is different from the 2014 edition. If 2014 was about hope, 2019 is about national security, he says, in an interview with Shweta Punj. Excerpts.

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