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Shri Palaniappan Chidambaram

Shri Palaniappan Chidambaram

Union Cabinet Minister, Home Affairs

Constituency: Sivaganga(Tamil Nadu)

Party: Indian National Congress(INC)

Contact Information

        (011) 23792222 (R), 23092810, 23092510, 23017175 (O)

Employment Details

Member, All India Congress Committee (A.I.C.C.) (1972)

President, Youth Congress, Tamil Nadu (1973 - 1976)

General-Secretary, Pradesh Congress Committee(P.C.C.), Tamil Nadu (1976 - 1977)

Elected to 8th Lok Sabha (1984)

Joint Secretary, All India Congress Committee (Indira)[A.I.C.C. (I)] (1985)

Union Deputy Minister, Commerce (September 1985)

Union Deputy Minister, Personnel, Administrative Reforms, Training Public Grievances and Pensions (1985 - 1986)

Union Minister of State, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions (1986 - 1989)

Union Minister of State, Home Affairs (Internal Security) (1986 - 1989)

Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (2nd term) (1989)

Member, Committee to review Lok Sabha Secretariat Rules, 1955 (1990)

Member, Consultative Committee constituted under the Punjab State Legislature (Delegation of Powers) Act, 1987

 

Member, Public Accounts Committee (1990 - 1991)

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Finance

 

Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (3rd term) (1991)

Union Minister of State, Commerce(Independent Charge) (1991 - 1992 and 1995 - 1996)

Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (4th term) (1996)

Union Minister, Finance (with additional charge of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, June 1996 and held charge of Company Affairs till April 1997) (1996 - 1998)

Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (5th term) (1998)

Member, Committee State Privileges (1998 - 1999)

Member, Committee on Finance. Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of External Affairs

 

Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (6th term) (2004)

Union Cabinet Minister, Finance (23 May 2004 - Nov 2008)

Union Cabinet Minister, Home Affairs (1 Dec.2008)

Education Details

B.Sc., B.L., M.B.A.

(Educated at Madras University, Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts (U.S.A.))