Yashwant Sinha, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Yashwant Sinha

Indian politician

Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1937

Place of Birth: Patna, Bihar, India

Profession: politician, civil servant

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Yashwant Sinha (born 6 November 1937) is a former Indian administrator, politician and a former Minister of Finance (1990–1991 under Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar and March 1998 – July 2002 under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Minister of External Affairs July 2002 – May 2004).
He was a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party before he quit the party on 21st Apr 2018.
His son Jayant Sinha, a consultant and investor, won the 2019 elections for the Hazaribagh constituency and was former Minister of State for Civil Aviation in Narendra Modi's cabinet. In 2015, he was awarded Officier de la Légion d’Honneur, the highest civilian distinction of France. He quit the BJP in April 2018.