In a government where the educational qualifications of ministers have often been the subject of uncharitable comment, minister of state for civil aviation Jayant Sinha, also member of Parliament from Hazaribagh in Jharkhand, is almost the gold standard. Educated at IIT and Harvard University, a former partner at McKinsey, who has lived overseas for many years, Sinha is part of India’s globally feted educated elite. Yet it is the same Jayant Sinha who today finds himself in an ugly controversy, targeted as a bigot and apologist for communal violence. The question arises, is the urban educated politician such a misfit in today’s electoral politics that he or she is forced to line up behind the mob?
Sinha has now regretted his Read More
