FM Sitharaman insisted on my transfer from North Block, says S C Garg

Former finance secretary Garg had last year opted for voluntary retirement after being transferred to Power ministry

A year after his voluntary retirement from the service, former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg claimed that he did not share a “good and productive” working relationship with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and she was among the key reasons for his abrupt exit from the government. 

“Nirmala Sitharaman, has a very different personality, knowledge endowment, skill-set and approach for economic policy issues and also for the officers working with her. It became quite apparent very early that working with her was going to be quite difficult and it might not be conducive to undertaking necessary reforms for the attainment of