Multiple choice

Who among the following was the first Finance Minister of independent India?

  1. R. K. Shanmukham Chetty

  2. John Mathai

  3. Liaquat Ali Khan

  4. C. D. Deshmukh
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R. K. Shanmukham Chetty served as independent India's first Finance Minister from 1947 to 1948, presenting the first budget in 1947. He was a lawyer and industrialist who joined the interim government. John Mathai, C. D. Deshmukh, and Liaquat Ali Khan were all prominent figures but not the first - Liaquat Ali Khan was actually Pakistan's first Prime Minister.

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