I see a resurgence of BJP in South India, Bengal in the coming election: Piyush Goyal

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Piyush Goyal, Commerce & Industry Minister, in conversation with Navika Kumar of ET Now at the Times Now Summit 2024. Goyal says: “This is an election where national issues and India's future assume the centrestage and not the local issues of the MLAs or of the corporators. It is that recognition that you have to get amongst the voters and I think then you are home and through.”

You have moved from Cabinet to candidate. You are set to make a poll debut and will be fighting from Mumbai North in the general elections. How much has life changed for you?
Piyush Goyal: What do you mean by “from cabinet to candidate”? I continue to be in the cabinet.

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Of course, you have been for many years in the Cabinet. I am saying now you are facing the heat and dust of elections and are a contestant yourself. Is that a change of role, a change of lifestyle, a change in the kind of work that you are doing?
Piyush Goyal: Certainly a change in the type of work, but no, nothing new for me. I have been helping others fight elections for almost 35 years now. It is great fun to be doing it for myself. And remembering all the great times we have had campaigning, let us say running Advani ji's campaign in 1989 in New Delhi when he contested for the first time in his life.
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