P Chidambaram Profile

P. Chidambaram Profile

Original Name: Chidambaram Palaniappan

Name: Chidambaram

Birth Date: September 16, 1945

Birth Place: Kanadukathan, Sivaganga District, Tamil Nadu, India

Father: Palaniappa Chettiar

Mother: Lakshmi Achi

Spouse: Nalini Chidambaram

Children: Karthik Chidambaram

Daughter-in-law: Srinithi Chidambaram

Political party: Indian National Congress

constituency: Sivaganga

Minister of Finance: 31 July 2012

Prime Minister: Manmohan Singh

Preceded by Manmohan Singh

22 May 2004 – 30 November 2008

Prime Minister: Manmohan Singh

Preceded by Jaswant Singh

Succeeded by Manmohan Singh

1 June 1996 – 21 April 1997

Prime Minister: H. D. Deve Gowda

Preceded by Jaswant Singh

Succeeded by Inder Kumar Gujral

Minister of Home Affairs: 30 November 2008 – 31 July 2012

Prime Minister: Manmohan Singh

Preceded by Shivraj Patil

Succeeded by Sushilkumar Shinde

Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions: 26 December 1985 – 2 December 1989

Prime Minister: Rajiv Gandhi

Preceded by Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo

Succeeded by Margaret Alva