Piyush Goyal Appointed as Deputy Leader of RS

Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has been appointed as the deputy leader of the Rajya Sabha. Goyal, a trusted member of the Modi Government will be the deputy to Thawarchand Gehlot who has been appointed as the Leader of the Rajya Sabha.

Gehlot, whois the two-time Rajya Sabha MP will be succeeding Union Minister Ravi ShankarPrasad who has been elected to the Lok Sabha.

Goyal iscurrently a Rajya Sabha member from Maharashtra who was formerly the NationalTreasurer of the BJP.

Thawarchand Gehlotwas appointed the leader of the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, a position occupied inthe previous Narendra Modi-led government by senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley.