Are the winds of change blowing across the country? Every time when a young Union Minister visits our city, Mysuru, this thought gets reinforced. Each one of them is Prime Minister Modi’s acolyte and a potential PM material. The charming, erudite, scholarly, intelligent, down-to-earth Piyush Goyal, Minister of State with Independent Charge for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, was on his first visit to the city recently. He is also appointed as Karnataka Associate In-charge for the forthcoming Assembly elections.
Star of Mysore Features Editor N. Niranjan Nikam caught up with Goyal in this exclusive interview lasting about 40 minutes, where he spoke about his Ministries at length, BJP’s stress on merit, how to serve the society by being in politics and how proud he is to be a Hindu. Excerpts…
