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Palaniappan Chidambaram (Tamil: பழனியப்பன் சிதம்பரம்) is an Indian politician. He is the present cabinet minister in Ministry of Finance, in the Congress party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition government led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He has held the portfolio since May 2004, when the UPA formed the government. He was also a cabinet minister with the same portfolio for a brief period in the United Front coalition government from 1996 to 1998. Prior to this, he was Minister of State (Deputy Minister) in the Rajiv Gandhi and Narasimha Rao led Congress-party governments, holding other portfolios. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ...
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A Harvard University graduate, Chidambaram is regarded by financial gurus, investors, the financial press and people across India as a qualified and highly competent minister of finance, carrying forward the economic reforms started in 1991 by then Finance Minister Manmohan Singh. Chidambaram, together with present Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Deputy Chairman of India’s Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia is a part of what the Indian financial press calls India’s economic ‘dream team’[citation needed]. Harvard redirects here. ...
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Background and education Palaniappan Chidambaram was born on 16th September, 1945, in the Sivaganga district of the state of Tamil Nadu. He was born into an affluent family. He holds a B.Sc., a LL.B. and an M.B.A. and was educated at the University of Madras and Harvard University. Sivaganga is a town in Tamil Nadu state of southern India. ...
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A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ...
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The University of Madras is one of the three oldest universities in India (along with University of Mumbai and University of Calcutta). ...
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Personal life He is married to Nalini Chidambaram, a prominent lady lawyer practising with the Madras High Court, primarily in womens issues. He has a son Karthik Chidambaram who is also into politics and studied in the United States at St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas. He is an avid tennis player.
Career as a lawyer In 1969, he enrolled as an Advocate in the Madras High Court and established a successful law practice. He was designated as a Senior Advocate in 1984. He has chambers in Delhi and Madras and practices in the Supreme Court and in various High Courts in India. He has also appeared in a number of arbitration proceedings, both in India and abroad. Chambers may refer to Chambers, Nebraska Chambers County, Alabama Chambers Dictionary of the English Language Chambers of parliament Chambers, a judges office where motions concerning procedure are heard. ...
Politics and ministerial portfolios Chidambaram was first elected to the Lok Sabha (Lower House) of Indian Parliament from the Sivaganga constituency of Tamil Nadu in general elections held in 1984. He was re-elected from the same constituency in the general elections of 1989, 1991, 1996, 1998 and 2004. Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ...
He was inducted into the Union (Indian federal) Council of Ministers in the government headed by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on 21 September 1985 as a Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Commerce and then in the Ministry of Personnel. He was elevated to the rank of Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions in January 1986. In October of the same year, he was appointed to the Ministry of Home Affairs as Minister of State for Internal Security. He continued to hold both offices until general elections were called in 1989. The Indian National Congress government was defeated in the general elections of 1989. Rajiv Ratna Gandhi राजीव गाधीं (IPA: ), born in Mumbai, (August 20, 1944 – May 21, 1991), the eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi, was the 7th Prime Minister of India (and the 2nd from the Gandhi family) from his mothers death on 31 October 1984 until his resignation on December 2...
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When Chidambaram was first given a ministerial post, he was one among a relatively young, well educated class of men brought into government by then-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1984. Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in May 1991 during an election campaign appearance in the state of Tamilnadu; in the general elections the following month a wave of sympathy for the assassinated Rajiv Gandhi, and a disunited opposition brought the Congress party back to power. Manmohan Singh, a leading economist and former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (India’s central bank) was made Finance Minister in the new government headed by Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, essentially the first technocrat on the job in post-independent India. Manmohan Singh’s reforms began taking India away from the erstwhile Soviet-style centralised planning, into a liberalized, free market economy. Rajiv Ratna Gandhi राजीव गाधीं (IPA: ), born in Mumbai, (August 20, 1944 – May 21, 1991), the eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi, was the 7th Prime Minister of India (and the 2nd from the Gandhi family) from his mothers death on 31 October 1984 until his resignation on December 2...
Rajiv Ratna Gandhi राजीव गाधीं (IPA: ), born in Mumbai, (August 20, 1944 – May 21, 1991), the eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi, was the 7th Prime Minister of India (and the 2nd from the Gandhi family) from his mothers death on 31 October 1984 until his resignation on December 2...
Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ...
Rajiv Ratna Gandhi राजीव गाधीं (IPA: ), born in Mumbai, (August 20, 1944 – May 21, 1991), the eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi, was the 7th Prime Minister of India (and the 2nd from the Gandhi family) from his mothers death on 31 October 1984 until his resignation on December 2...
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Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (June 28, 1921 - December 23, 2004) was the ninth Prime Minister of the Republic of India. ...
In June 1991, Chidambaram was inducted as a Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Commerce, a post he held till July, 1992. He was later re-appointed Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Commerce in February 1995 and held the post until April 1996 . He made some radical changes in India’s export-import (EXIM) policy, while at the Ministry of Commerce.
In 1996 Chidambaram quit the Congress party and joined a breakaway faction of the Tamilnadu state unit of the Congress party called the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC). In general elections held in 1996, TMC along with a few national and regional level opposition parties formed a coalition government. The coalition government came as a big break for Chidambaram, who was given the key cabinet portfolio of Finance; this put him in the limelight. Although the coalition government was a short-lived one (it fell in 1998), it showed Chidambaram’s competence as Finance Minister, a factor which was to lead to his reappointment to the same key portfolio in the government formed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2004. Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ...
The Tamil Maanila Congress was a political party in Tamil Nadu. ...
In 1998 the Bhartatiya Janata Party (BJP) took the reins of government for the first time and it was not until May 2004 that Chidambaram would be back in Government. Chidambaram became Minister of Finance again in the Congress party-led United Progressive Alliance government on 24th May 2004. During the intervening period Chidambaram made some experiments in his political career, leaving the Tamil Maanila Congress in 2001 and forming his own party, the Congress Jananayaka Peravai, largely focused on the regional politics of Tamil Nadu. The party, however, failed to take off into mainstream Tamil Nadu or national politics. Just prior to the elections of 2004, he merged his party with the mainstream Congress party. The Tamil Maanila Congress was a political party in Tamil Nadu. ...
CJP Flag Congress Jananayaka Peravai (Congress Democratic Front), political party in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. ...
Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ...
Political traits Generally a simple down-to-earth person, Chidambaram moves easily from the highly-charged politics of his home state Tamilnadu, to addressing the financial media in Mumbai, and presenting India’s views at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland. Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ...
Davos viewed from air Davos is a town in eastern Switzerland, in the canton of Graubünden, on the Landwasser River. ...
He is a trustee of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, associated with charitable causes and also a trustee of the Tamil ‘Ilakiya Chintanai’ (Tamil Literary Foundation - literally, Tamil Literary Thoughts), Chennai, India. He is also fond of literature and sports. He has delivered lectures at many universities, both at home and abroad. The word trustee is a legal term that refers to a holder of property on behalf of a beneficiary. ...
The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation was established on June 21, 1991. ...
Controversies He represented the bankrupt American energy gaint Enron, as a senior lawyer in India, and is again set to revive its Dhabol power project.[2][3] Enron Creditors Recovery Corporation (formerly Enron Corporation) (former NYSE ticker symbol: ENE) was an American energy company based in Houston, Texas. ...
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The Dabhol Power Company was a company based in India, formed to manage and operate the Dabhol Power Plant. ...
He resigned on 10 July 1992 from minister position owning moral responsibility for investing in Fairgrowth, a company allegedly involved in securities scam. [4]
In August 2006 the then President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam gave permission to enquire into the allegations that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Finance Minister P. Chidambaram had been holding office of profit at the time of elections. It has been alleged that they both had been the board members of Rajiv Gandhi Trust Foundation. The Election Commission will enquire into the allegations. [5] Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (born October 15, 1931, Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, India), usually referred to as Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, is the President of India. ...
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