The Insiders: Interview with Yashwant Sinha - NewsX

The "insiders" featured in this series are no ordinary people: they have held key positions of power and have been in involved in policy and decision making processes. In 1991, when the Chandrashekhar govt took over, India was perched on the edge of an economic crisis. It had huge debts and the oil shock had hit the countries cash reserves hard. As finance minister at the time, Yashwant Sinha was the man entrusted to pull us out of the crisis and keep our economy afloat. And as foreign secretary at the time, Muchkund Dubey was involved in this effort. Watch the story of how India was saved from going under and how the road to economic reforms was built. In an exclusive interview, Kalyani Shankar caught up with former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha.

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