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Ved Prakash Goyal
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Ved Prakash Goyal | |
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| Ministry of Shipping | |
| In office 2001–2003 | |
| Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1926 Karnal, Punjab, British India (present-day Haryana, India) |
| Died | 17 December 2008 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Children | Piyush Goyal, Pradeep Goyal |
| Alma mater | B.Tech IIT-BHU |
Ved Prakash Goyal (1926 – 17 December 2008) was an Indian politician and the Union Minister of shipping in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in India from 2001 to 2003. He was the treasurer of Bharatiya Janata Party for a long time. He was a member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India. Piyush Vedprakash Goyal, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Textiles in the Government of India is the son of Ved Prakash Goyal.
Early life[edit]
He was born in 1926 in Karnal in British Punjab and passed B.Sc. (Engg.). He was educated at Dayanand Anglo Vedic College, Lahore and at Banaras Hindu University.[1]
Personal life[edit]
He died from complications of brain tumor at the Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai on 17 December 2008.[2]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Ved Prakash Goyal Biography". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007.
- ↑ "Former Union Minister Goyal passes away". Press Trust of India. 18 December 2008. Retrieved 19 December 2008.
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- 1926 births
- 2008 deaths
- Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra
- Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Maharashtra
- Banaras Hindu University alumni
- People from Karnal
- Politicians from Mumbai
- Deaths from brain tumor
- Deaths from cancer in India
- Neurological disease deaths in India
- Rajya Sabha members from the Bharatiya Janata Party