P. Chidambaram
P. Chidambaram
Pazhaniappan Chidambaramis an Indian politician affiliated with the Indian National Congress and a former Union Minister of Finance of India. Chidambaram is a corporate lawyer and an important member of the last Congress-led government. He has been the Finance Minister since May 2004, except for a three and a half year stint - beginning November 2008 - as Home Minister, in the wake of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Chidambaram returned as Finance Minister in July 2012, succeeding Pranab Mukherjee,...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 September 1945
CountryIndia
If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
Independence is a very subjective assessment.
All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.
People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.
Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
Congress is not a party which fades when not in power
Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.
It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
What we will become depends on us