Yashwant Sinha

Yashwant Sinha
Sinha in 2008
Vice President of All India Trinamool Congress
In office 15 March 2021 – June 2022
President	Mamata Banerjee
Minister of External Affairs
In office 1 July 2002 – 22 May 2004
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by	Jaswant Singh
Succeeded by	Natwar Singh
Minister of Finance
In office 5 December 1998 – 1 July 2002
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by	P. Chidambaram
Succeeded by	Jaswant Singh
In office 10 November 1990 – 5 June 1991
Prime Minister	Chandra Shekhar
Preceded by	Madhu Dandavate
Succeeded by	Manmohan Singh
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 1998–2014
Preceded by	M. L. Vishwakarma
Succeeded by	Jayant Sinha
Constituency	Hazaribagh
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office 1988–1994
Personal details
Born	(1937-11-06) 6 November 1937 (age 86)[1] Patna, Bihar Province, British India (present-day Bihar, India)[1]
Political party	Independent
Other political affiliations	Janata Dal (1988–1991) Bharatiya Janata Party (1992–2018) Bhartiya Sab Log Party (2020-2021) All India Trinamool Congress (2021-2022)
Spouse	Nilima Sinha
Children	Jayant Sinha Sumant Sinha, Sharmila
Residence(s)	New Delhi, India
Occupation	Civil servant, politician
Awards	Officier de la Légion d’Honneur (2015)

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. He also served as the Minister of External Affairs from July 2002 until May 2004.^[2] He was a senior leader of the BJP before he left the party on 21 April 2018.^[3] In 2022, he was the Presidential candidate of India for the opposition.^[4]