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 4 April 2017, Sinha was arrested by Hazaribaug District along with MLA Manish Jaiswal and 150 others after trying to hold a religious procession when the police stopped them, leading to them protesting the action with the supporters throwing stones at the police
              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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