2024-03-14 15:03:35
Mumbai: Bharatiya Janata Party is fielding its veterans in the 2024 general elections. The party has also planned to give Lok Sabha tickets to many Rajya Sabha members. Rajiv Chandrashekhar was given ticket from Kerala in the first list of BJP. Now the leader of the House in Rajya Sabha, Piyush Goyal has been given ticket from Mumbai North Lok Sabha seat. Goyal will contest elections for the first time in his 35 years of politics. The party has canceled the ticket of sitting Mumbai North MP Gopal Shetty. This seat was held by BJP from 1989 to 2003. Ram Naik was MP from Mumbai North seat for five consecutive terms. In 2004, film star Govinda defeated Ram Naik and won the seat for Congress. In 2009, Sanjay Nirupam defeated Ram Naik for the second time. In 2014, BJP again captured this seat. Gopal Shetty was elected MP from Mumbai North for two consecutive terms. Now 17 lakh voters of this seat will decide the fate of Piyush Goyal. Piyush Goyal inherited politics from his family.
Piyush Goyal, a chartered accountant and investment banker, inherited politics. His father Ved Prakash Goyal was the treasurer of BJP for two decades. VP Goyal was also the Shipping Minister in the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. His mother Chandrakanta Goyal was elected member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly three times. Piyush Goyal joined the BJP organization in the 90s itself. In 2010, I got a chance to go to Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra for the first time. BJP sent him to Rajya Sabha three times consecutively. Piyush Goyal was also close to PM Narendra Modi. In 2014, when Modi 1.0 government was formed, he was made Coal Minister. After the resignation of Suresh Prabhu in 2017, he also took over the Railway Ministry. In 2019, he became the Minister of Commerce and Industry in the second government of Narendra Modi. The party appointed him the party leader in the Rajya Sabha. Now he has contested the elections for the first time.
PM Narendra Modi will be seen in the Lok Sabha. Navratna Party is planning to bring its Navratnas in the Lok Sabha. Till now Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nishikant Dubey were leading the front. The presence of Piyush Goyal will increase the strength of BJP in the House. Piyush Goyal is one of those leaders of BJP who has friends in all parties. He played a big role in getting many important bills passed in the Rajya Sabha. Apart from this, Piyush himself has been handling the campaign machinery of PM Modi. During the 2014 elections, Piyush Goyal took PM Modi to the masses through the Namo Tea campaign. After the death of Ram Vilas Paswan, he was also given the responsibility of food supply and civil consumer affairs. During the Corona era, he started a scheme to provide free food grains to 80 crore people. Due to this scheme, Modi government became very popular and BJP made a comeback in many states. The idea of ​​distributing LED bulbs in India was of Piyush Goyal, whose success was discussed in the world. Piyush Goyal is also the Treasurer of BJP since 2010.