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Who was the first finance minister of india? |
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Answer» Shanmukham Chetty Shanmukham Chetty was the first finance minister of India. C Subramaniam actively participated in India\'s freedom struggle, having gone to prison several times, and had the unique distinction of serving as minister under Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi. CS, as he was popularly known, is best-remembered as the man who provided political leadership to the Green Revolution. He stayed with the Congress until the end of the Emergency, but later joined the short-lived Charan Singh Cabinet as defence minister in 1979-80. CS presented the budgets between 1975-76 and 1976-77. |
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