| Yashwant Sinha (Born 1937) |
Born in Patna in 1937, Yaswant did his masters from Patna University in 1958. Thereafter he became a teacher of Political Science, a job he continued till 1960, when he was selected for IAS.
For 24 years he worked as a bureaucrat starting from a sub divisional Magistrate to a Consul General of India in Frankfurt, and then a Joint Secretary in Ministry of Surface Transport. In 1984 he joined active politics as a member of Janta party. He worked as Minister of Finance from November 1990 to June 1991 in Mr. Chandra Shekhar's Cabinet.
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He became the National Spokesperson of the BJP in June 1996. He was appointed Finance Minister of India in March, 1998. Mr. Sinha has a wide range of interests including reading, gardening and meeting people.
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