Showing posts with label Finance Ministers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Finance Ministers. Show all posts

Friday, September 29, 2017

Two Finance Ministers and their sons

Yashwant Sinha, a former bureaucrat and Finance Minister, has pilloried government's economic policies and their implementation. His son, Jayant Sinha, a minister in the central government, has responded to his father's criticism gracefully. Economics is always a slippery subject. The same economic policy may work sometimes and may prove disastrous in less fortunate times. But the dialogue between Yashwant Sinha and his son has been delightful sans any bitterness. They belong to the same political party but are able to bring in different perspectives.

Contrast all this from what another former Finance Minister and his son are doing. P.Chidambaram and Karti Chidambaram are spending their time trying to prove why their alleged ill-gotten wealth is not illegitimate after all. No smoke without fire?