Who among the following have been the Union Finance Ministers of India? 1. V.P. Singh 2. R. Venkataraman 3. Y.B. Chavan 4. Pranab Mukherjee Select the correct answer using the code given below:

All four listed persons have held the Union Finance Minister portfolio at different times. V. P. Singh is explicitly recorded as having been appointed Union Finance Minister (entry on the Prime Minister’s website notes he became Union Finance Minister on 31 December 1984) [1]. Y. B. (Yashwantrao) Chavan is shown as predecessor to P. Chidambaram in the finance ministry, indicating he served as Union Finance Minister earlier [2]. Additionally, R. Venkataraman and Pranab Mukherjee each served as India’s Finance Ministers in separate periods (Venkataraman in the early 1980s and Pranab Mukherjee in multiple stints including the 1980s and later years). Therefore the correct choice is all four (1, 2, 3 and 4).

Sources

1. [1] https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/former_pm/shri-vishwanath-pratap-singh/
2. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chidambaram_Subramaniam