Yashwant Sinha
Yashwant Sinha (born November 6, 1937 in Patna , Bihar ) is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who was finance minister and foreign minister among other things .
Life
Official, Member of the Rajya Sabha and Minister of Finance
After attending school, Sinha completed a degree in political science at Patna University , from which he completed a Master of Arts (MA Political Science).
After completing his studies, he was a lecturer in political science at Patna University between 1958 and 1960 and then entered the civil service (Indian Administrative Service) . In the following years he was promoted to Vice Commissioner of Santhal Pargana and later was chairman of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), the public transport company of New Delhi, and chairman of the drafting committee of the UNCTAD shipping conference in Geneva . He also acted temporarily as head of the Consulate General in Frankfurt am Main . First Secretary to the Chief Minister of Bihar and Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Shipping and Transport. In 1984 he took early retirement to get involved in politics.
Sinha joined the Janata Party in 1984 and was general secretary of that party between 1986 and 1988. On April 3, 1988 he was elected a member of the Rajya Sabha , the upper house of the Indian parliament , and was a member of this until November 14, 1993. During his tenure in the House of Lords, he became a member of the Petitions Committee in 1990. In 1990 he became a member of the Samajwadi Party after it split off from the Janata Dal .
On November 21, 1990, Sinha was appointed Union Minister of Finance by Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar in his cabinet and held this position until the end of Shekhar's term on June 21, 1991.
Member of Lok Sabha and Foreign Minister
After he was a member of the Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) and opposition leader there between 1995 and 1996 , he was elected a member of Lok Sabha , the lower house of the Indian parliament, for the twelfth term in 1998 . For a time he was a member of the Diet Committee of the Lok Sabha.
Shortly thereafter, on March 19, 1998, Sinha was appointed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee as Union Minister of Finance in his cabinet . In 1999 he was re-elected as a member of the Lok Sabha for the 13th legislative period. He held the post of finance minister until a cabinet reshuffle on 1 July 2002 and then took over from Jaswant Singh Minister for Foreign Affairs (Union Minister of External Affairs) , while Singh by him in turn took over the post of finance minister. He held the post of Foreign Minister until the end of Vajpayee's term on May 22, 2004.
In 2004 he left the Lok Sabha and was instead re-elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha. There he was a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Security in the Parliament Building (Sansad Bhavan) from September 2004 to 2009 and also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Foreign Ministry from October 2004 to 2009. He also became a member of the Press Council of India in June 2006.
After he was elected from the Rajya Sabha in 2009 and now for the third time as a deputy of the Lok Sabha, he became a member of the Lower House Committee on Public Accounts on August 6, 2009 and was chairman of the advisory committee of the Foreign Ministry. On May 1, 2010 he was again a member of the Committee for Public Accounts and on May 7, 2010 Chairman of the Finance Committee of Lok Sabha.
In 2017 he caused a stir with his criticism of the Indian Prime Minister Modi.
Web links
- Entry on the Lok Sabha homepage
- Entry on the homepage of the Rajya Sabha (members 1952 to 2003)
- Entry in rulers.org
- India: Ministries in rulers.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Hein: India's head of government blows the wind strongly in the face, in: FAZ No. 233, October 7, 2017, p. 22.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sinha, Yashwant |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Patna , Bihar |