Piyush Goyal is an Indian politician and a chartered accountant. He is serving as Minister of Commerce and Industry since 2019. Earlier he served as Minister of Textiles and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in India. Before this he was elected as Cabinet Minister in 2017. Formerly he was a Member of Parliament for Rajya Sabha from the Maharashtra state. He was elected as member of 18th Lok Sabha Representing Mumbai North Lok Sabha constituency.
Piyush earlier had held the post of National Treasurer of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He also headed the BJP's Information Communication Campaign Committee where he oversaw the publicity and advertising campaign of the party including the social media outreach for the Indian General Elections 2014. He also held additional charge of Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs twice in 2018 and 2019. Earlier he was Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy (2014–2017), and Mines (2016–17).