At the beginning of his session at India Today Mind Rocks Youth Summit 2015, Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha seemed at ease with describing the government's efforts in creating more jobs, the growing economy and the government's various skill-oriented schemes. But, as the session progressed, the MoS had to face quite a few tough questions - on beef, inflation and coercion - from the audience members.

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While his answers on the three issues ranged from "beef is not banned, only cow slaughter is" to "any kind of coercion is unacceptable", he had to admit defeat when the majority in the audience responded "no!" to Sinha's question of whether inflation has reduced under the current government's reign. "During the UPA government, inflation was at 8-10 per cent and right now its 4-5 per cent. But if you feel that inflation hasn't reduced then somewhere we are at fault for not communicating the fact to you," he conceded. In pics: Jayant Sinha at India Today Mind Rocks Youth Summit 2015



Sinha also spoke about his thoughts on his father, Yashwant Sinha, and Arun Shourie's criticism of the Modi government. About his father, the MoS said he is a "wise man who gives important inputs" and about the latter he said, "I respect Arun Shourie but I must debate him on his views (Shourie recently termed BJP as 'Congress plus a cow'). There are key points of difference between BJP and Congress. We work for the poor and we are also pro-market." Watch: Make in India is a gamechanger scheme, says Jayant Sinha

There were also a few light-hearted moments too. Although he declined an audience member's request for him to show his dancing skills, he did present the two sides of his personality by giving monologue in his corporate as well as political avatar.