PM Modi to replace finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman with an economist or a banker.

There is insufficient credible evidence to confirm whether Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman would be replaced by an economist or a banker.

Some news agencies reported that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet has decided to replace the current finance minister Nirmala Sithraman with an economist or a banker. The reports mentioned that BRICS Bank Chairman KV Kamath would be inducted into the council of ministers and conjectured that he may be assigned the Ministry of Finance.

There have been no official statements from the Prime Minister's Office or any of the cabinet ministers about the same. The aforementioned reports do not mention any sources either and hence the information cannot be verified at this stage.

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