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Yashwant Sinha (Hindustani pronunciation: [jəʃˈʋən̪t̪ sɪnˈɦɑː], born 6 November 1937) is an Indian administrator and politician. He served as the Minister of Finance from 1990 until 1991 under Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar and again from March 1998 to July 2002 under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee .
On 21 June 2022, Yashwant Sinha, a former AITC leader, was unanimously chosen as the common candidate of UPA and other opposition parties for the 2022 presidential election. [23] On the same day, NDA chose Droupadi Murmu as its presidential candidate. [24]
US Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke to External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha and condemned the massacre which he described as a "terrorist act". The State Department also released one-para statement on behalf of Mr Powell saying:
India Unmade: How the Modi Government Broke the Economy is a book coauthored by Yashwant Sinha and Aditya Sinha published in 2018. The book criticizes the economic performance of the National Democratic Alliance government near the end of its tenure prior to the 2019 Indian general election.
Arun Shourie, Yashwant Sinha and Prashant Bhushan demanded a CAG audit of the Rafale deal and alleged that there was a cost escalation of ₹1,000 crore per aircraft. They added that the aircraft were ordered in the same configuration as before and that other government officials were unaware of the plans to acquire 36 aircraft instead of 126.
In July 2002 he became Finance Minister again, switching posts with Yashwant Sinha. He served as Finance Minister until the defeat of the Vajpayee government in May 2004 and was instrumental in defining and pushing through the market-friendly reforms of the government. [41] He was conferred the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for the year ...
New cabinet ministers were: Shatrughan Sinha, Sahib Singh Verma, Jana Krishnamurthy, Balasaheb Vikhe Patil. ... Yashwant Sinha. 1 July 2002: 22 May 2004 ...
Jayant Sinha (born 21 April 1963; Hindi pronunciation: [d͡ʒəjən̪t̪ sɪn̪ɦaː]) is an Indian businessman and former politician who served as Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha for Hazaribagh from 2014 to 2024 and of Minister of State for Finance and Minister of State for Civil Aviation in the Government of India.