Yashwant Sinha joins TMC in Kolkata

Ahead of West Bengal Assembly elections, ex-Bhartiya Janata Party leader and former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha joined Trinamool Congress in Kolkata today. He joined the party in the presence of TMC leaders Derek O Brien, Sudip Bandopadhyay and Subrata Mukherjee at the Trinamool Bhawan in the city. The 83-year-old leader had quit BJP in 2018.

 

Mr Sinha, a former IAS officer of the 1960 batch, joined politics in 1984, starting off with the Janata Party



after quitting government service. He later joined the BJP. Mr Sinha first became Finance Minister in November 1990 and stayed in office till June 1991, serving under Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar. His second tenure stretched between December 1998 and July 2002 under Prime Minister Vajpayee. From then to May 2004, he was India's Foreign Minister. His son Jayant Sinha is a BJP member and Parliamentarian from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.