K. C. Venugopal of INC

K. C. Venugopal born 4 February 1963 is an Indian politician who is a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha elected from Rajasthan.

A member of the Indian National Congress. He has been appointed a General Secretary of AICC, He was the Minister of State for Civil Aviation & Ministry of Power in the UPA Government.

He came to active politics through the Student Movement of the Indian National Congress. He became the State President of the Kerala Students Union and State President of the Indian Youth Congress. – Venugopal Wiki

Kamal Nath of INC

Kamal Nath born 18 November 1946 is an Indian politician who served as the 18th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from March 2020 to April 2022.

As a leader of the Indian National Congress he has served as the Minister of Urban Development. He is one of the longest serving and most senior members of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s bicameral Parliament.

Nath is a strong proponent of economic development in India. At the World Economic Forum (WEF) Davos, Switzerland in 2011 Nath shared his views on improving market access for developing countries in the area of agriculture stating India’s applied tariffs for exports in developed countries was very low. – Kamal Nath Wiki

Shashi Tharoor of INC

Shashi Tharoor born 9 March 1956 is a politician and public intellectual who has been serving as Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009.

During the Congress-led UPA government, Tharoor served as Minister of State for External Affairs. He is currently a member of the Congress Working Committee, which is highest decision making body of the Indian National Congress.

From 1978 to 2007, Tharoor was a career official at the United Nations, rising to the rank of Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information in 2001. – Shashi Wiki

P. Chidambaram of INC

Palaniappan Chidambaram born 16 September 1945, better known as P. Chidambaram, is an Indian politician and lawyer who currently serves as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha.

He served as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs from 2017 to 2018. And also served Interim Deputy Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha from 2022 to 2023 under Mallikarjun Kharge.

He made some radical changes in India’s export-import (EXIM) policy, while at the Ministry of Commerce.

The coalition government came as a big break for Chidambaram, who was given the key cabinet portfolio of Finance. His 1997 budget is still remembered as the dream budget for the Indian economy. – Chidambaram Wiki

Manmohan Singh of INC

Manmohan Singh born 26 September 1932 is an Indian retired politician, economist, academician and bureaucrat who served as the 13th Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014.

A member of the Indian National Congress, Singh was the first Sikh prime minister of India. He was also the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term. He is the third longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.

Singh, who had thus far been one of the most influential architects of India’s socialist economy, eliminated the permit raj, reduced state control of the economy, and reduced import taxes.

In praise of Singh’s work that pushed India towards a market economy, long-time Cabinet minister P. Chidambaram has compared Singh’s role in India’s reforms to Deng Xiaoping’s in China.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Singh held several key posts in the Government of India, such as Chief Economic Advisor (1972–1976), governor of the Reserve Bank (1982–1985) and head of the Planning Commission (1985–1987). – Manmohan Wiki