YASHWANT SINHA
I NEED TO SPEAK NOW: YASHWANT SINHA
-AACHAL
BURANDE
Yashwant Sinha is the retired IAS
Officer, a administrator, a politician & a former Minister of Finance. He
was also the external affairs minister. He is the senior leader of BJP. Sinha joined
the Indian Administrative Services in 1960 and
spent over 24 years holding important posts during his service tenure. He
served as Sub-Divisional Magistrate and District
Magistrate for 4 years. After his great work in administration he
resigned from the Indian Administrative Service in 1984 and joined active
politics as a member of the Janata Party. He was appointed
All-India General secretary of the party in 1986 and was elected Member of
the Rajya Sabha in 1988. On 25 April 2015, The French Government
honoured him with the highest French civilian distinction of Officer of the Legion of Honour. It was bestowed upon
him in recognition of his work as Union Minister of Finance, Minister of
External Foreign Affairs and for his invaluable contribution to international
issues. Drohkaal ka Pathik is the famous autobiography of
Yashwant Sinha released in November 2013. In his autobiography former MP Pappu
Yadav alleged that three MPs of his Indian Federal Democratic Party got
money from the then finance minister Sinha, to join the NDA in 2001. Also
there were allegations against Yastwant Sinha, that he was involved in the UTI
scam .
On September 27, 2017; he strongly
criticized policies of Modi Government and hit on
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley by writing
an article in Indian
Express after a continuous decline in GDP growth. The article named “I
need to speak up now” shook the whole BJP Government. The famous book written by
him is “ Confessions of a
Swadeshi Reformer: My years as a Finance Minister” , it is full of experience
& criticism.

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