Tamil Nadu gets Wall Street veteran and MIT graduate as finance minister in Stalin's cabinet

Palanivel Thiagarajan, son of veteran DMK leader PTR Palanivel Rajan, is a former investment banker who quit Standard Chartered Bank in 2014 to enter politics in Tamil Nadu. He is now the finance minister in Stalin’s cabinet.

After securing a massive victory in the 2021 Assembly election, the DMK has formed the government in Tamil Nadu with MK Stalin taking the oath as the chief minister on May 7. A total of 33 ministers were also sworn in following MK Stalin, of whom 15 were first-time ministers. "I don't remember were we wild and youngAll that faded into memoryI feel like somebody I don't knowAre we really who we used to beAm I really who I was"- Ryan Adams, Lucky NowPhoto sent by an old friend yesterday (Ontario, Canada when ~23 yr. old Ph.D. student) pic.twitter.com/fBLrRUOr3i For the finance ministry in Tamil Nadu, MK Stalin chose Madurai Central MLA Palanivel Thiagarajan -- an MBA in Finance from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a Wall Street veteran.