High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ved Prakash Goyal (1926 - December 17, 2008) was an Indian politician and the Union Minister of shipping in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in India from 2001-2003. He was the treasurer of Bharatiya Janata Party for a long time. He was a member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India.