Palaniappan Chidambaram
Portfolio: Home Minister
Date of birth: September 16,1945
Party: Indian National Congress
Constituency: Sivaganga
Currently holding the Home portfolio, Chidambaram is among the most prominent Cabinet ministers of the ruling-United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Union government led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. From May 2004 to November 2008, he was the Finance Minister of India. However, after the resignation of Shivraj Patil, Chidambaram was made the Home Affairs Minister. He was also a Cabinet Minister with the Finance portfolio for a brief period in the United Front coalition government from 1996 to 1998. Prior to this, he held other portfolios. A former staunch socialist, Chidambaram has been fully supportive of the calibrated economic reforms, ushered in since 1991. He was a trade union activist in his early years.
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