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P. Chidambaram is the finance minister of India in the Congress-led UPA government ( 2004- 2009). He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2004 from Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu, the constituency from which he was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1984. He was minister of state for commerceThis article is about the business concept; Commerce is also the name of several places in the United States''. Commerce is the exchange of something of value between two entities. That "something" may be goods, services, information, money, or anything e and also for personnel from 19851985 is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January events January 1 Creation of the Internet's Domain Name System. January 17 British Telecom annouces they are going to abolish the famous red telephone boxes. January 23 A debate in the House of Lor to 891989 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). Events January January 7 Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan following the death of Hirohito. The Heisei period begins January 8 the Kegworth Air Disaster A British Midland Boeing 737 cra in Rajiv GandhiRajiv Gandhi ( ( August 20, 1944 May 21, 1991), son of Indira Gandhi, was Prime Minister of India from his mother's death on October 31, 1984 until his resignation on December 2, 1989 following general election defeat. Initially preferring his career as a's ministry and was minister of state for commerce with independent charge from 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac to 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan in the Narasimha Rao government. He was Finance Minister from 1996 to 1998 in the United Front government. He is considered to be one of the best finance ministers the country has ever had.

An MBA graduate from Harvard, he started as a leftist, went on to be an architect of the Congress government's economic reform strategies as Rajiv Gandhi's right hand man, and has today ascended to the post of India's Finance Minister with the new United Front Government, after yet another affiliation shift.

In 1996, Chidambaram quit the Congress over its decision to ally with AIADMK and joined the Tamil Maanila Congress . He is now back in the Congress again.

The letter P. in his name stands for initial, as his father's name is Palaniyappan. See Indian family name for a further reading.