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BJP age cut-off gets in Yashwant's way

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Business Standard New Delhi
Last Updated : Oct 03 2015 | 10:20 PM IST
Many were wondering what was behind former finance and foreign minister Yashwant Sinha's complaint against the policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sinha was critical of the 2014-15 Budget. He then made remarks on India's policy, and the lack of it on Pakistan. His latest criticism is of the way India is going about the United Nations Security Council expansion campaign.

With his expertise in finance and foreign policy, Sinha believes he could have made a difference as the chairman of the New Development Bank BRICS, formerly the BRICS Development Bank, headquartered in Shanghai.

When the suggestion was made to Modi, he turned it down, not just because Yashwant's son Jayant was a junior finance minister, also because Modi wanted to implement the Bharatiya Janata Party's retirement age of 75.

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First Published: Oct 03 2015 | 9:02 PM IST

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