Union Minister Piyush Goyal at The Hindu office on Monday, April 13, 2026.
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BJP leader and Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal on Monday said that if the Narendra Modi government at the Centre were playing petty politics, as had been alleged, it would have allotted the first PM Mitra Park to one of the States ruled by the NDA or the BJP, rather than Tamil Nadu.

To a query whether the BJP’s ‘double-engine sarkar’ slogan constituted a threat to voters — that unless they vote for the ruling party at the Centre, some Central schemes might not reach them — Mr. Goyal said the BJP government had sanctioned the first PM Mitra Park in Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu when he was the Textiles Minister.

Published – April 13, 2026 10:44 pm IST