Ved Prakash Goyal
Ved Prakash Goyal 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 Railways and Coal in the Government of India is the son of Ved Prakash Goyal.He was born in 1926 in Karnal in British Punjab and passed B.Sc.. 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.
