Mumbai: Piyush Goyal, who held key ministries including commerce and industry in the second Modi government, won his first Lok Sabha election from the Mumbai North constituency by an impressive vote margin.
Goyal, 59, who has been a Rajya Sabha member since 2010, clearly explained the government's position on various occasions during debates on various issues in the Upper House of Parliament.
Ahead of the elections, Goyal hit out at opposition leaders for labeling him an outsider and said he was born in Mumbai, studied at HR College and Government Law College, started his chartered accountancy practice in Lalbagh and has a law firm in Nepean. Worked as an investment banker. Sea route.
Goyal, who hails from a distinguished political family, had said last month, "Nobody can be more of a Mumbaikar than me."
On Sunday he again became a Union Cabinet minister, this time as a Lok Sabha member.In the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, Goyal won the Mumbai North seat against Congress candidate Bhushan Patil by a huge margin of 3,57,608 votes, the highest in the state.
He is the son of BJP loyalists Ved Prakash Goyal and Chandrakant Goyal. His father was the shipping minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government and national treasurer of the BJP, and his mother was a three-time MLA from Matunga, Mumbai.
Piyush Goyal was promoted to cabinet rank in September 2017.
He has held the post of National Treasurer of BJP and also led the party's communication campaign in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.The senior politician, who became the leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha in 2021, has held several ministries such as finance, railways, coal, corporate affairs, commerce, industries and textiles, consumer affairs, food and public distribution.
When Congress MP Rahul Gandhi recently alleged the "biggest stock market scam" of Rs 30 lakh crore and pointed the finger at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister Amit Shah, Piyush Goyal claimed that domestic investors had actually Made money while foreign investors suffered losses. Investor.
The BJP leader also rejected Gandhi's demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) inquiry into the matter, terming it baseless and saying that he keeps making useless comments.
Goyal said the Rs 30 lakh crore figure highlighted by Gandhi was a hypothetical amount and not related to trade.
Goyal, 59, who has been a Rajya Sabha member since 2010, clearly explained the government's position on various occasions during debates on various issues in the Upper House of Parliament.
Ahead of the elections, Goyal hit out at opposition leaders for labeling him an outsider and said he was born in Mumbai, studied at HR College and Government Law College, started his chartered accountancy practice in Lalbagh and has a law firm in Nepean. Worked as an investment banker. Sea route.
Goyal, who hails from a distinguished political family, had said last month, "Nobody can be more of a Mumbaikar than me."
On Sunday he again became a Union Cabinet minister, this time as a Lok Sabha member.In the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, Goyal won the Mumbai North seat against Congress candidate Bhushan Patil by a huge margin of 3,57,608 votes, the highest in the state.
He is the son of BJP loyalists Ved Prakash Goyal and Chandrakant Goyal. His father was the shipping minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government and national treasurer of the BJP, and his mother was a three-time MLA from Matunga, Mumbai.
Piyush Goyal was promoted to cabinet rank in September 2017.
He has held the post of National Treasurer of BJP and also led the party's communication campaign in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.The senior politician, who became the leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha in 2021, has held several ministries such as finance, railways, coal, corporate affairs, commerce, industries and textiles, consumer affairs, food and public distribution.
When Congress MP Rahul Gandhi recently alleged the "biggest stock market scam" of Rs 30 lakh crore and pointed the finger at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister Amit Shah, Piyush Goyal claimed that domestic investors had actually Made money while foreign investors suffered losses. Investor.
The BJP leader also rejected Gandhi's demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) inquiry into the matter, terming it baseless and saying that he keeps making useless comments.
Goyal said the Rs 30 lakh crore figure highlighted by Gandhi was a hypothetical amount and not related to trade.
