Education
Shri Ram College of Commerce.
Shri Ram College of Commerce.
He became president of its organisation in Delhi in February 2013. He was elected to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan in 2014. A former Delhi University Students" Union president and an alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce.
Vijay Goel was born to former Delhi Vidhan Sabha Speaker and BJP member Charti Lal Goel and Basanti Devi on 4 January 1954.
He has an M.Com. degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Delhi. After his release from jail, Goel became president of Delhi University Students" Union in 1977 as a candidate of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.
Goel was the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) treasurer in 1974-1975. He exposed corruption concerning fake certificates that was then operating at the university.
Under the banner of Lok Abhiyan, a socio-cultural organisation, Goel initiated protests against state-sponsored lotteries in India in 1993.
He led a campaign supported by over 120 MPs. The lottery was banned in India on 7 July 1998. Vijay Goel established - - a not for profit organisation in 1987 that collects toys from donors, refurbishes/restores them and then redistributes the toys amongst the underprivileged children in Delhi.
Goel had been promoted as the BJP"s candidate for Chief Minister in the Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2013 until six weeks prior to voting day.
Accoridng to some source, the electoral threat posed by the recently formed Aam Aadmi Party caused him to be replaced by Harsh Vardhan. Other sources say that he met with opposition from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, an organisation that is closely associated with the BJP and who were unhappy with how he was running the party in the state.
He also served as the Union Minister of State of Labour, Parliamentary Affairs, Statistics & Programme Implementation and Youth Affairs & Sports in the National Democratic Alliance (India) government until 2004.
He has been the Member of Parliament for the 11th, 12th and 13th Lok Sabha representing the Sadar and Chandni Chowk constituencies of Delhi. He was a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and was jailed during Emergency in India.