TIOL-DDT 2362 · Wednesday, 28 May 2014 · story 3 of 6

Nirmala Sitharaman - Speaking her way into three Ministries

THE new Minister of State in the Finance Ministry is BJP's vociferous and effective spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman, who will also be a MoS in the Ministries of Commerce & Industry and Corporate Affairs - certainly related to FINANCE. At least we will not see the kind of cold war between Kamal Nath in Commerce and Chidambaram in Finance that we witnessed in UPA-I.

Legal Corner Icon — the image was hosted by the publisher and was not captured.She has been doing all the talking - now she has to do a lot of working. The BJP leaders are all good speakers, now is the time for them to prove that actions speak louder than words.

TIOL wishes Ms Sitharaman an exciting tenure in all the three ministries, which should perhaps be eventually merged.

Maybe one of her first jobs would be to clear the posting orders of Assistant Commissioners of CBEC.