No Finance Minister (FM) starts on a clean slate | The Indian Express

No Finance Minister (FM) starts on a clean slate | The Indian Express

Written by P Chidambaram |Updated: June 16, 2019 9:57:10 am

P Chidambaram is former Finance minister of India.

No Finance Minister (FM) starts on a clean slate

The slate is always full of writing — some helpful, some harmless, some a headache and some a hindrance!

Over 10,000 farmers commit suicide every year. In Maharashtra alone, 808 farmers have taken their lives so far in 2019. Farmers will not brook neglect any longer.

I have admired the swift rise of Mrs Nirmala Sitharaman from party spokesperson (2010) to Commerce Minister (2014) to Defence Minister (2017) and to Finance Minister (2019). At every rise she broke a glass ceiling. That should encourage more women to prove that they are not less capable than men.