Yashwant Sinha Hazaribagh Biography

Yashwant Sinha Biography

Yashwant Sinha is such a talented BJP politician electes from the Hazaribagh Parliamentary Constituency, Pune, and has made an unprecedented contribution in improving the country’s economy as the Union Finance Minister in the Vajpayee government formed after the formation of the 12th and 13th Lok Sabha. . Atal Bihari Vajpayee has been the Finance Minister and External Affairs Minister in the Cabinet (Union Cabinet). So come today in this article we will tell you about Yashwant Sinha Biography – Yashwant Sinha Biography .

Yashwant Sinha Hazaribagh Biography – Yashwant Sinha Biography

Birth

Yashwant Sinha was born on 6 November 1937 in Patna. His father’s name was Vipin Bihari Sharan and his mother’s name was Dhanna Devi . His wife’s name is Neelima Sinha . And the name of his son’s name is Jayant Sinha . Yashwant Sinha has interestes in reading, gardening and meeting people and many other areas. He has traveled widely around the country and has led many political and social delegations. He played a leading role in many negotiations and exchanges on behalf of the country.

education

Yashwant Sinha received his Masters (Post-Graduate) degree in Political Science in 1958 at Patna Collegiate School and Patna University . He later taught the same subject at Patna University till 1960.

Yashwant Sinha Hazaribagh – career

• Yashwant Sinha joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1960 and spent more than 24 years in the service, serving in several important positions during his tenure. For 4 years he served as Sub-Divisional Magistrate and District Magistrate.
• After being Under Secretary and Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Government of Bihar for 2 years, he worked as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India.
• From 1971 to 1973, he served as First Secretary (Commercial) at the Indian Embassy in Bonn, Germany.
• He later served as the Consul General of India in Frankfurt from 1973 to 1974. After working for about seven years in this field, he gained experience in the field of foreign trade and India’s relations with the European Economic Community.
• He later worked in the Department of Industrial Infrastructure, Government of Bihar and Ministry of Industry, Government of India where he was responsible for matters of foreign industrial cooperation, import of technology, intellectual property rights and industrial acceptance.
• As Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Surface Transport, Government of India from 1980 to 1984, his main duties included Road Transport, Ports and Shipping.

political career

Janata Dal

• Yashwant Sinha resigned from the Indian Administrative Service in 1984 and joined active politics as a member of the Janata Party .
• In 1986, he was appointed the All India General Secretary of the party and in 1988 he was elected a member of the Rajya Sabha.
• After the formation of Janata Dal in 1989, he was appointed General Secretary of the party.
• He served as Finance Minister from November 1990 to June 1991 in the cabinet of Chandra Shekhar.

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• In June 1996, he became the national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party .
• In March 1998, he got appointe as the Finance Minister. From that day until the formation of the new government after the parliamentary elections on 22 May 2004, he was the Foreign Minister.
• He represented the Hazaribagh constituency of Bihar (Jharkhand) in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament. But the defeat of Yashwant Sinha from Hazaribagh seat in the 2004 elections is an astonishing event.
• He entered Parliament again in 2005.
• On 13 June 2009, he resigned from the post of Vice President of BJP.

finance minister

Yashwant Sinha remaines the Finance Minister till 1 July 2002, after which his post was swapped with that of External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh. During his tenure, Sinha has to withdraw some key policy aspects of his government, for which he got also heavily criticized. Nevertheless, Sinha is has credited with spearheading several major reforms that have resulted in the Indian economy being firmly on the growth trajectory. These include reduction in real interest rates, tax exemptions on loan payments, deregulation of the telecom sector, helping to fund the National Highways Authority and deregulation of the petroleum industry. Sinha is the first finance minister to break the 53-year-old tradition of presenting the Indian budget at 5 pm local time;

Sinha has given a detailed account of the years he spent as Finance Minister in a book titled “Confessions of a Swadeshi Reformer”.