Indians today receive more honour and respect in foreign lands than they did before 2014, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday (December 14) claimed.

Speaking at a gathering of leaders and workers of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, he also said that before 2014, the state’s law-and-order scenario was “very bad” and corruption and major scams featured in news headlines regularly. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) came to power in 2014 under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It also won the general elections of 2019 and 2024.

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Goyal’s claim came after he announced the name of his ministerial colleague, Pankaj Chaudhary, as the president of the state unit of the party. Pankaj, a seve

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