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CONFESSIONS OF A SWADESHI REFORMER: MY YEARS AS FINANCE MINISTER (hb)2007
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The Chandra Shekhar government had fallen. Fresh elections had been called. Yashwant Sinha finance minister in the caretaker government was in Patna contesting for the Lok Sabha against tough opposition when a senior officer from the finance ministry brought an urgent file for his signature: India needed to mortgage gold to obtain a loan from the Bank of England to tide over a payments crisis—there were just enough foreign exchange reserves to pay for two weeks’ imports. The crisis was not of their government’s making but it devolved on Sinha to take this drastic step. If he ever got the opportunity he promised himself he would make sure that the country never had to face such a crisis again.
The opportunity came in 1998 when Sinha was appointed finance minister in the NDA government led by Vajpayee and was faced with yet another crisis: the nuclear tests in May that year resulted in sanctions and a possible flashpoint. The finance minister’s decision to issue the Resurgent India Bonds helped tide over it raising 4.25 billion in two weeks from NRIs and the country hasn’t looked back since.
Yashwant Sinha was finance minister for four years until 2002 and presented five budgets. In Confessions of a Swadeshi Reformer he gives us the inside story of how the framework for the growth that has taken place subsequently was laid in that time. From the reforms that were initiated to the politics that threatened all initiative the opposition from within the party as also outside it which tried to derail the process Sinha pulls no punches in this candid memoir. Nor does he shy away from discussing the attempts to cut him down to size including the proposal to split up the Ministry of Finance and the various controversies of the time—from the two UTI scams to the Flex Industries case and the Mauritius tax treaty case (in which he was alleged to have favoured his daughter-in-law) all of which he faced with equanimity and strength of character. There are besides piquant observations on the jostling for position and prime postings that any minister has to face.
In the popular eye the finance minister is often seen as a taxing machine a man entrusted as one British chancellor of the exchequer put it with a certain amount of misery which is his duty to distribute as fairly as he can. This may perhaps be true but as this memoir shows the finance minister can also bestow a few pleasant surprises.
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Yashwant Sinha Born in Patna Yashwant Sinha was educated there and received his master’s in political science in 1958. Subsequently he taught in Patna University from 1958 to 1960. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1960 and during his twenty-four-year service tenure served as sub-divisional magistrate district magistrate and in various positions in the Bihar government the Ministry of Commerce Ministry of Industry and Ministry of Surface Transport of the central government. He has also worked as Consul General of India in Frankfurt Germany.
Yashwant Sinha took voluntary retirement from the IAS in 1984 and joined active politics as a member of the Janata Party. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1988. His first tenure as Minister of Finance from November 1990 to June 1991 was in the Chandra Shekhar cabinet. As Lok Sabha member from Hazaribagh he again held the same portfolio from March 1998 to July 2002 in the Vajpayee government and then served as external affairs minister a position he held till the elections of May 2004.
Mr Sinha is widely travelled and has a range of interests including reading gardening and meeting people. He lives in New Delhi with his wife Nilima. They have three children two sons and a daughter.
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