P Chidambaram Biography|Palaniappan Chidambaram
P Chidambaram is an Indian politician and former attorney. He currently serves as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha . He also served as the Union Minister of Finance of India.
He was the Finance Minister starting in May 2004 through 2014, 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, who demitted office to become the President of India.
P Chidambaram Age
P Chidambaram was born as Palaniappan Chidambaram on 16 September 1945 in Tamil Nadu, India. He is 73 years old as of 2018.
P Chidambaram Family
Chidambaram was born to Kandanur L. Ct. L. Palaniappa Chettiar and Lakshmi Achi in Kanadukathan in the Sivaganga District in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. His maternal grandfather was Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiar, a wealthy merchant and banker from Chettinad. Chidambaram’s mother, Lakshmi Acchi, was the daughter of Sir Annamalai Chettiar, a banker and merchant, and was granted the title of Raja by the British Raj. Annamalai Chettiar was the founder of Annamalai University and United India Insurance Company Limited. His brother Ramaswami Chettiar was the founder of Indian Bank and the co-founder of another major banks.
Chidambaram has two brothers and one sister. His father’s business interests covered textiles, trading and plantations in India. He chose to concentrate on his legal practice and stayed away from the family business.
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P Chidambaram Spouse|P Chidambaram Son
He is married to Nalini Chidambaram. Nalini Chidambaram is the daughter of Justice P.S. Kailasam, Supreme Court, and Mrs. Soundra Kailasam, a renowned Tamil poet and author, who is a senior advocate practising in the Madras High Court and in the Supreme Court of India.
He has a son called Karti P. Chidambaram. Karti P. Chidambaram graduated with a BBA degree from the University of Texas, Austin, and a Masters in Law from the University of Cambridge. Karti, a Congress Party’s AICC member, is active in Tamil Nadu state politics. Karti is married to Dr. Srinidi Rangarajan, a well-known Bharathanatiyam dancer and medical doctor, working with the Apollo Group of Hospitals in Chennai. Karti and Srinidhi have a daughter, Aditi Nalini Chidambaram.
P Chidambaram Education
Chidambaram went to Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School he passed the one-year pre University course from Loyola College, Chennai. After graduating with a BSc degree in statistics from the Presidency College, Chennai, he completed his Bachelor of Laws from the Madras Law College (now Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College) and his MBA from Harvard Business School in the class of 1968. He also holds a master’s degree from Loyola College in Chennai.
During this time his politics inclined to the left and in 1969 he joined N. Ram, later editor of The Hindu, and the women’s activist Mythili Sivaraman in starting a journal called the Radical Review.
He enrolled as a lawyer in the Madras High Court, becoming a senior advocate in 1984. He had offices in Delhi and Chennai and practised in the Supreme Court and various high courts of India.
P Chidambaram Net Worth|P Chidambaram Assets
The Enforcement Directorate said that it had attached assets worth Rs 54 crore of Karti Chidambaram in India.
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“Thief Returned Papers”: P Chidambaram’s Jibe At Centre Over Rafale Files
“On Wednesday, it was ”stolen documents”. On Friday, it was ”photocopied documents”. I suppose the thief returned the documents in between on Thursday,” Mr Chidambaram said in a series of tweets.
His jibe came a day after the attorney general said that the Rafale documents were not stolen from the Defence Ministry, and that what he meant in his submission before the Supreme Court on Wednesday was that petitioners in the application used “photocopies of the original” papers, deemed secret by the government.
“On Wednesday, it was ”stolen documents”. On Friday, it was ”photocopied documents”. I suppose the thief returned the documents in between on Thursday,” Mr Chidambaram said in a series of tweets.
“On Wednesday, the Official Secrets Act was shown to the newspaper. On Friday, the ”Olive Branches Act” was shown. We salute common sense,” the former finance minister said.
Mr Venugopal’s comments in the Supreme Court on Wednesday that Rafale fighter jet deal documents were stolen had caused a political row, with Congress president Rahul Gandhi targeting the government over stealing of such sensitive papers and seeking a criminal investigation.
Mr Venugopal had sought dismissal of a petition for a review of the Supreme Court’s earlier judgment on the Rafale deal on the ground that the fresh plea relied on documents “stolen” from the Defence Ministry and that investigations were going on to find out if it was a crime and violative of the Official Secrets Act.
“I am told that the opposition has alleged what was argued (in Supreme Court) was that files had been stolen from the Defence Ministry. This is wholly incorrect. The statement that files have been stolen is wholly incorrect,” Mr Venugopal told news agency Press Trust of India on Friday, in an apparent damage-control exercise.
The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday sparred over the attorney general’s fresh remarks, with the opposition party dubbing it a “lie” and the ruling party slamming Rahul Gandhi for his attack on the government over the issue.
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