The First Speaker of Delhi Assembly Charti lal Goel and father of Union Minister of State for Youth Affairs Vijay Goel passed away on Monday after a prolonged illness.
Goel was a founder member of Bharatiya Jan Sangh in 1951 and was a prominent leader of the BJP in the nineties. A prominent Income Tax expert, he became the First Speaker of the Delhi Assembly in 1993 when the BJP formed the Government and held the post of Deputy Mayor of Delhi earlier.
Born in a small village Jharot of Rohtak, Haryana, he came for higher studies in Delhi after his matriculation. During the Emergency in 1975, both he and his son Vijay Goel were in jail. Most of the family members of his three sons and two daughters are engaged in teaching in the university.