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How first-time FMs of Kerala, TN, Assam may impact Centre-state relation

Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Assam, all have first-time finance ministers. Aditi Phadnis looks at how they may impact Centre-state relation in terms of revenue and power-sharing

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From left: Palanivel Thiagarajan, K N Balagopal, Ajanta Neog | Illustrations by Binay Sinha, Ajay Mohanty

Aditi Phadnis New Delhi

5 min read Last Updated : May 24 2021 | 6:10 AM IST

What do a district secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), a former investment banker, and a life-long Congress politician who joined the BJP only in 2020 have in common?

They are all first-time finance ministers!

K N Balagopal (CPM) is Kerala’s new finance minister. Palanivel Thiagarajan will run the finance department in Tamil Nadu. And Ajanta Neog, as Assam’s finance minister, is the first woman to have ever got the job in the state. None has ever been a finance minister before.

But all of them have very strong opinions on how finances of their states should be

Topics : Pinarayi Vijayan Nirmala Sitharaman Finance minister Tamil Nadu Kerala Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma West Bengal Amit Mitra M K Stalin Bharatiya Janata Party central government Narendra Modi Congress DMK Communist Party of India (Marxist)