All the parties have started their preparations for the Lok Sabha elections. Meanwhile, news is coming that BJP may field commerce minister Piyush Goyal from Mumbai's North Mumbai Lok Sabha seat. The party cannot give ticket to sitting MP Gopal Shetty this time. Piyush Goyal had also made it clear earlier that if the party gives him a chance to become the Lok Sabha candidate, he will definitely contest the elections.
Piyush Vedprakash Goyal is a Chartered Accountant who serves as a Cabinet Minister in the Government of India, holding the portfolios of Minister of Textiles, Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. He was promoted to the rank of Cabinet Minister on 3 September 2017. Currently he is the Member of Parliament for Rajya Sabha from the state of Maharashtra, he is also the current leader of the house in Rajya Sabha.
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The ruling BJP has named 34 Union ministers in the first list of 195 candidates. Union ministers whose names have been announced by the BJP in the first list of candidates include Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Bhupender Yadav, Mansukh Mandaviya, Sarbananda Sonowal, Kiren Rijiju, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Arjun Ram Meghwal, G Kishan Reddy, Arjun Munda and Smriti Irani.
The Election Commission is expected to announce the poll schedule soon and the elections are likely to be held in April-May. In 2019 polls, the BJP won 303 seats but currently it has 290 members in Lok Sabha for various reasons including some MPs recently resigning after winning assembly polls.
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