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Piyush Goyal to be deputy leader of Rajya Sabha
New Delhi, June 12: Union minster Piyush Goyal was on Wednesday appointed as the Deputy Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha, sources said.
The two-time Rajya Sabha MP will be succeeding Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who has been elected to the Lok Sabha.
Goyal, the Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry in the Narendra Modi government, will be deputy to senior BJP leader Thawarchand Gehlot, the Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment.
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Gehlot has been chosen as the Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha.
Goyal is currently a Rajya Sabha member from of Maharashtra. He was formerly the National Treasurer of the BJP.
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