Chidambaram not interested in Home portfolio
New
Delhi,
Dec
1:
Outgoing
Finance
Minister,
P
Chidambaram
on
Monday,
Dec
1
assured
that
inflation
would
be
moderate
and
economic
growth
in
India
would
be
satisfactory.
Speaking
about
the
Home
Ministry
portfolio
he
would
be
taking
on
(after
Shivraj
Patil's
resignation),
he
said
,
"I
am
moving
today
to
the
Ministry
of
Home
Affairs.
I
will
be
less
than
honest
if
I
don't
say
I
was
disinclined
(to
accept
the
new
portfolio).
But
the
final
call
is
taken
by
party
leader
--
in
my
case
Congress
President
Sonia
Gandhi
--
and
Prime
Minister
Manmohan
Singh."
"After
four
years
of
reasonably
satisfactory
growth,
I
was
looking
forward
to
an
uneventful
year.
But
it
turned
out
to
be
the
most
eventful
of
my
ministerial
career,"
he
said
while
referring
to
"first
four
months
of
rising
inflation,
food
and
commodity
prices".
"The next four months witnessed global financial meltdown and the last four were even more eventful," a smiling Chidambaram said.
He said there were some incomplete work in the finance ministry but assured that "inflation will moderate and the economic growth will be satisfactory" under Manmohan Singh who will be holding the finance portfolio.
He said the Prime Minister will be holding the finance ministry "for the time being".
"Prime Minister was a governor of Reserve Bank of India, deputy chairperson planning commission and a finance minister... we need coordination of these three (in finance ministry) and he (Manmohan Singh) has held all the three position earlier," he said.
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