Tag: Yashwant Sinha
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How Jayant Sinha loses race to BJP’s Hazaribagh candidature for Lok Sabha
Ranchi: When the Bharatiya Janata Party released the names of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the most shocking exclusion was that of the former minister and two-time Member of Parliament from Hazaribagh, Jayant Sinha. A holder of a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Harvard University, Sinha is also the son…
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Opposition chooses Yashwant Sinha, BJP names Draupadi Murmu as Presidential candidate
New Delhi: Yashwant Sinha, a former Indian Administration Service (IAS) officer and minister in Atal Bihari Vajpai government, has been chosen as opposition candidate for the Presidential election scheduled for July next month. With the opposition making its choice clear, BJP by the end of the day, named the 64-year-old Murmu tribal leader from Odisha…
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Chaibasa, the bone of contention for JMM and Congress in Mahagathbandhan!
Ranchi: Former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha, who hails from Jharkhand, tweeted on March 11, regarding the issue plaguing the mahagatbandhan. “BJP has given up sitting seats in Bihar and Jharkhand to have alliances. The opposition parties are not ready to compromise even on non existing seats. Good luck to them (sic).” The situation is exactly…
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Rafale deal is biggest scam ever and compromise to national security: Ex-BJP Ministers
Delhi: In 1987, when VP Singh blew the lid off the Bofors scandal, the entire nation found a messiah in Singh. The scandal involved illegal kickbacks paid in a US$1.4 billion deal between the Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors with the then government of India for the sale of 410 field howitzer guns, and a supply…
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Why Jayant Sinha felicitating Ramgarh killers shouldn’t take us by surprise
Ranchi: Indian Civil Aviation Minister Jayant Sinha is receiving the flak for garlanding eight killers who had lynched Alimuddin Ansari in Ramgarh for allegedly transporting beef. The politician, an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Delhi) and Harvard University Alumni had met the accused who had been granted bail and felicitated, on Friday. But they should not…