Nirmala Sitharaman, who has just been selected to replace Arun Jaitley as Finance Minister, faces a delicate balancing act in her new role. On the one hand, she will want to display fiscal rectitude. But on the other hand, she is likely to come under growing pressure to loosen policy to support the economy amid signs that growth has slowed over recent months.
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