Union Minister Arun Jaitley will on Friday resume his role as the Finance Minister, four days after his return from the United States, where he was undergoing medical treatment.

Mr Jaitley returned home on Sunday after three weeks in the US.

His first official engagement would be a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security which will discuss the Pulwama attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed at least 37 CRPF personnel.

Jaitley missed presenting the sixth and final Budget of the Narendra Modi government before the general elections. In his absence, the charge of the finance ministry was given to railways minister Piyush Goyal.

Jaitley, 66, had flown to New York on January 13 for the treatment, after being reportedly diagnosed with soft tissue cancer, which required surgery. Subsequently on January 23, the charge of the Finance Ministry and Corporate Affairs was given to Goyal on temporary basis.

This was his first overseas visit after he underwent renal transplant surgery on May 14, 2018, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

He had stopped attending office at the beginning of April last year due to his kidney ailment and was back in North Block on August 23, 2018. Even then, Goyal had manned the ministry for about 100 days.

In September 2014, Jaitley underwent bariatric surgery to treat weight gain that he suffered because of a long-standing diabetic condition.