Hazaribagh MP Jayant Sinha, who also happens to be son of former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha, is likely to be inducted in the Union Cabinet on Sunday. Though, Sinha has not revealed receiving any official communiqué from the Centre, his name is doing rounds in the party circle for over a week from now.
If inducted, Jayant is likely to get the Finance portfolio as MoS of the department given his academic background and exposure in the field of finance. The leader himself has accepted to have informally giving ideas on formation of key economic policies during Yashwant Sinha’s tenure as Finance Minister.
In 2004 and 2009 Parliamentary elections, he worked as a team member of BJP IT wing. He also hinted that the hit ‘Chai Ki Choupal’ programme during the lok Sabha polls was the brainchild of his team.
Born on April 21, 1963 at Giridih, Jayant completed his schooling at St Michael's School, Patna and St Columba's school Delhi. In 1980 he got admitted in IIT-Delhi as a student of last batch of five-year course. In 1985, he cleared CAT but went to University of Pennsylvania and then in 1992 to Harvard business school from where he got the degree of MBA.
In both school and college life, Jayant was counted among those few students who were extraordinary in both scholastic and non scholastic activities. Till December 31, 2013, Jayant was a partner at Omidyar Network and the MD of Omidyar network India advisors, were he led overall investment strategy and operations.