Yashwant Sinha, the presidential candidate of the Opposition parties, will file his nomination in New Delhi on Monday. Former union minister Sinha was chosen as the consensus candidate at the Joint Opposition in a meeting on June 21 for the upcoming polls, which will take place on July 18, 2022.
Sinha, who was a BJP leader and then TMC, served as the Union Finance Minister (FM) from 1990 until 1991 under PM Chandra Shekhar. He again served as the FM under the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led National Democratic Alliance government from March 1998 to July 2002. Sinha has also served as