Senior Indian politician, lawyer and Rajya Sabha MP P Chidambaram is celebrating his 80th birthday on September 16. He completed a long term as the Union Finance Minister and Home Minister during the UPA government. Explain that P Chidambaram played an important role in shaping India’s economic and internal security structure as an experienced policy maker and legal expert. So let’s know about some interesting things related to P Chidambaram’s life on the occasion of his birthday …
Birth and education
P Chidambaram was born on 16 September 1945 in village Canadukthan in Tamil Nadu. His full name is Palaniappan Chidambaram. He completed his early education from Madras Christian Secondary School. After this, he graduated from Presidency College, Chennai with statistics in Science. P Chidambaram received a master’s degree in Business Management from Harvard University, Boston.
Chidambaram used to advocate
P Chidambaram practiced in Chennai court in the initial stages. In the year 1984, P Chidambaram was nominated as a senior advocate. He has worked as a lawyer in the High Court and Supreme Court of many states.
Chidambaram is an experienced politician
Please tell that P Chidambaram is a well -known and experienced politician. However, on several occasions, his decisions have also been severely criticized. When the Janlokpal movement was at its peak, P Chidambaram was the Home Minister of the country at that time. In such a situation, when the Delhi Police arrested Anna Hazare and sent him to Tihar, citing law and order spoiling, P Chidambaram raised a finger. At that time it was said that the country’s Home Minister P Chidambaram is responsible for this unpleasant situation. Apart from this, P Chidambaram was also questioned on the lathicharch on the supporters of Yogguru Ramdev at Ramlila Maidan.
Political life was full of ups and downs
Let us know that in the year 1972, P Chidambaram took membership of the All India Congress Committee. Then in the year 1973, he has also been the Youth Congress President in Tamil Nadu and General Secretary of Tamil Nadu Congress State Committee. After this, in 1984, he won the Lok Sabha elections from Sivaganga constituency and entered active politics. He then won this seat 6 consecutive times.
Work on many positions
P Chidambaram in the Rajiv Gandhi government served as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Commerce. Then in the year 1986, he served as a minister in the Ministry of Personnel with a public complaint. In 1986, he was appointed as the Minister of Internal Security in the Union Home Ministry. Then in 1991, the post of Minister of State was made the independent in -charge of the Ministry of Commerce. At the same time, in the year 1995, he held this position again.
After this, in 2004, P Chidambaram was again assigned the Finance Ministry to the Manmohan government. P Chidambaram held this post till 2008. P Chidambar was made the Home Minister after the then Home Minister Shivraj Patil resigned after the terrorism blasts in Delhi in 2008.
Old relationship with controversies
P Chidambaram could never miss the controversies. In Parliament, Chidambaram was accused of commenting against Hindi -speaking MP and Hindus. Apart from this, he was also accused that he is one of the directors of the Rajiv Gandhi Trust.