Rangarajan to be new FM?

By Vijay Kumar

Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee is tipped to be the next External Affairs Minister of India._ Shivraj Patil may be appointed Defence Minister and Finance Minister P Chidambaram home or internal security minister. Former Reserve Bank of India governor Dr C Rangarajan is tipped to become finance minister, as the Prime Minister is pushing for his nomination to the Rajya Sabha. No! DDT is not speculating on Indian politics. This is what the Daily Times of Pakistan reported yesterday and if this turns out to be true, we may as well start reading Pakistani newspapers to know news about India.

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