P Chidambaram, Finance Minister, India
P Chidambaram, the Finance Minister of India in the Congress-led UPA government (2004-2009), was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2004 from Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu, the constituency from which he was first elected in 1984.
An MBA graduate from Harvard, Chidambaram, who started as a leftist, went on to be an architect of the Congress government's economic reform strategies as Rajiv Gandhi's right hand man.
He was also a finance minister in the United Front government in the mid 90s. An able administrator, he has handled different ministries since 80s.
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