Yashwant Sinha

Yashwant Sinha

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Yashwant Sinha Profile

  • Name:
  • Yashwant Sinha
  • Born:
  • November 6, 1937
  • Born / Home Town:
  • Patna

Yashwant Sinha Biography

Yashwant Sinha is a bureaucrat-turned Indian politician belonging to Bharatiya Janata Party. He is one of the foremost senior leaders of the party and a prominent face of the party from Jharkhand. He has served as Finance minister of India in 1990-1991 when he represented the breakaway faction of the Janata Dal headed by Chandrashekhar. He has also served as financial minister and Foreign minister under Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s cabinet. He has been elected to 16th Lok Sabha elections representing Bhartiya Janata Party.

 

He was born in Patna in 1937. He completed Master’s in Political Science in 1958 and worked as faculty in University of Patna till he joined Indian Administrative service in 1960. He quit services in 1984 to enter the hurly-burly of politics. Till then he had completed 24 long years in Indian Administrative Service holding many senior posts. He joined the Janata Party headed by Chandrashekhar in 1986. He remained loyal to his mentor and was a prominent member of Chandrashekhar’s sinking ship. He was appointed as the All-India General secretary of the party in 1986 and also won 1988 elections. When Chandrasekhar formed Government, Sinha was appointed as the Finance minister of India in 1990 under his cabinet. It was short lived (November 1990 to May 1991) as government fell very soon.

 

In 1995, he contested as BJP candidate from Ranchi (then undivided Bihar) in state assembly elections and served as Leader of the Opposition in Bihar Assembly. But when his name was dragged in a 'hawala' case in 1996, he quit his MLA position. Then he contested Lok Sabha elections from Hazaribagh, where he won to become finance minister in Vajpayee’s 13-month regime in 1998. However he lost 2004 Lok Sabha polls from Hazaribagh due to his unpopularity. His role as a BJP rebel did adversely affect his political career too.

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Updated: May 22, 2014

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