About Ved Prakash Goyal
Lived 1926 – 2008 (aged 81–82). Ved Prakash Goyal was an Indian politician.
Ved Prakash Goyal (31 January 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 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.
Personal life He died from complications of brain tumor at the Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai on 17 December 2008.
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Indian politician
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Ved Prakash Goyal was born in 1926 in Karnal.
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Ved Prakash Goyal died on 17 December 2008 in Mumbai.
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Ved Prakash Goyal was a politician.
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Ved Prakash Goyal was Indian.
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