Nirmala Sitharaman is the first woman to head India's finance ministry since Indira Gandhi
finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman , is an unusual figure in the country’s politics. She is the first woman to head the finance ministry since Indira Gandhi seized the post 50 years ago, after nationalising many of India’s banks. She is an economist. But unlike most in her Bharatiya Janata Party she hails from the country’s south, having grown up in Tamil Nadu, one of the few big states to resist the’s advances in the recent election.
As chief minister of Gujarat, Mr Modi excelled at drumming up investment from big corporations and breathing down civil servants’ necks. But that approach has translated less well to the role of prime minister, which requires more indirect methods, such as creating the right incentives and delegating to the right people.
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