Indeed, the finance minister could have taught the highways minister a thing or two about the art of flattery. When he asked overseas Indians for their feedback, one of them asked him to focus on how to bring more women into the finance sector. Mukherjee promptly replied that he believed women were far better managers of money than men and declared he was ready to vacate his seat for any woman. Perhaps Mukherjee remembered that that India has had just had one woman finance minister, Indira Gandhi, who as prime minister took finance as additional charge in 1969-70.
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