Currently the longest serving Commerce and Industry Minister of India, Piyush Goyal has in the past served as the Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha and helmed the Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Food & Public Distribution, Textiles, Railways, Finance, Corporate Affairs, Coal, Power, New & Renewable Energy, and Mines. After serving as a Rajya Sabha member for 14 years (since 2010), he won the Lok Sabha election from North Mumbai constituency in 2024, with the highest vote margin in the State of Maharashtra.

Key Achievements

• Highest-ever exports of $825 Bn in FY 2024-25

• Signed Economic Cooperation & Trade Agreement with Australia – India’s 1st agreement with a developed nation after a decade
• Conclusion of India-UK FTA, with unprecedented Double Contribution Convention in May 2025
• First-ever legally-binding investment commitment of $100 Bn in 15 years, creating 1 Mn jobs, as part of Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement signed with European Free Trade Association countries
• India-UAE FTA signed – fastest ever conclusion of negotiations globally for any two countries
• Oversaw the successful implementation of Production Linked Incentive Schemes to boost Make In India
• Implemented world’s largest food security program, PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana by distributing free foodgrains to ~ 80 Cr people over a 2-year period
• Achieved the best-ever safety record of zero passenger deaths in rail accidents as Railways Minister
• Successfully implemented the world’s largest LED bulb distribution program (UJALA) as Power Minister
• Awarded with the prestigious Carnot Prize in 2018 by Kleinman Center for Energy Policy (University of Pennsylvania) for making energy efficiency a people’s movement

POLITICAL JOURNEY

During his 35-year-long political career, he has held several important positions at different levels in the world’s largest political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and is in its National Executive. He has also been the National Treasurer of the Party.

PERSONAL LIFE

He has had a brilliant academic record – an all-India rank two in Chartered Accountancy examination, and also second-rank as Law Graduate from Mumbai University. He has been a well-known investment banker before becoming a Union Minister in 2014. His father, Late Vedprakash Goyal was Union Minister of Shipping, and the National Treasurer of the BJP for overtwo decades. His mother Chandrakanta Goyal was elected thrice to the Maharashtra egislative Assembly rom Mumbai. He is married to Seema, an active social worker, and has two children – Dhruv and Radhika.