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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today played down former Union minister Arun Shourie's criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he does not not attach much importance to comments made out of "personal ambitions not being satisfied". Shourie, in an interview recently, called Modi "a narcissist running a presidential government without any checks and balances". "Has this trait come in the last two years according to him (Shourie) or did it pre-exist? I think when comments are based on personal ambitions not being satisfied, at least I don't attach much importance to that comment," he said in an interview to India Today TV on the occasion of completion of two years of the NDA government. On unsavory comments made by certain BJP leaders like Sakshi Maharaj, Yogi Adityanath and Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Jaitley said they have been "reasonably checked". "The party has told those people, and you have seen the impact in the last one year. People who were making statements of that kind