Hardeep Singh Puri Biography: Hardeep Singh Puri’s political image has been of an experienced and skilled administrator. He is a former diplomat and is among the prominent leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party. His image has been a policy expert and skilled speaker, especially in areas such as urban development, housing and petroleum. Puri’s administrative and diplomatic experience strengthens their policy understanding. He has been a permanent representative of India at the United Nations.
Hardeep Singh Puri is a 1974 batch Indian Foreign Service Officer, who served as a permanent representative of India in the United Nations from 2009 to 2013. Puri joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in January 2014 and became an MP in the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh in November 2020. Earlier in May 2019, he took over as Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs and Civil Aviation (Independent Charge) and Minister of State for Commerce and Industry.
Earlier, Puri has served as the chairman of the Anti-Terrorism Committee of the UN Security Council from January 2011 to February 2013; And joined the International Peace Institute as a senior advisor in June 2013. They are considered influenced by the ideology of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, although they are primarily seen in the role of a policy expert.
Early life and education
Birth of Hardeep Singh Puri -15 February 1952
In Delhi, Bhagat Singh Puri and Mrs. Kundan Puri were home. His father was a civil servant. Puri completed her primary education from Frank Anthony Public School, Lajpat Nagar. He later went to India’s boarding schools as his father was posted in countries where there were no options for English language education. He received the Bachelor of Arts in History from Hindu College, Delhi and Arts Postgraduate in History. He then worked as a lecturer of history at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi (1973-74).
personal life
Hardeep Singh Puri is married to the Ambassador of the Indian Foreign Service Laxmi Puri. Later of the United Nations cadre, former UN Assistant General Secretary and former Deputy Executive Director of UN Women. They have two daughters. His brother Pradeep Puri is a 1979 batch IAS officer who played an important role in the construction of DND flyway.
Service provided as Joint Secretary to Government of India
Hardeep Puri joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1974. From 1994 to 1997 and from 1999 to 2002, served as Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of External Affairs. He has also served as Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Defense from 1997 to 1999. He was the Ambassador of India in Brazil. He later served as Secretary (Economic Relations), Government of India in the Ministry of External Affairs from 2009 to 2013.
Puri has been posted in important diplomatic positions in Brazil, where he was an ambassador, in Japan, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom where he was Deputy High Commissioner. Between 1988 and 1991, he was the coordinator of the UNDP / UNCTAD multilateral trade dialogue project to help developing countries in the Uruguay round of multilateral trade talks. He was also awarded the ‘Grand Cross of the Order of Rio Branco’ in Brazil.
Chairman of United Nations Anti -Terrorism Committee
He also served as the chairman of the Anti -Terrorism Committee of the United Nations Security Council from January 2011 to February 2013, and also served as the President of the United Nations Security Council in August 2011 and then in November 2012.
This is how the journey of politics started
Ambassador Puri joined the International Peace Institute as a senior advisor in June 2013. He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in January 2014, praising the party’s approach to national security. He has been working as a member of Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh since 2018. After Venkaiah Naidu was promoted as the Vice President of India in 2017, Puri was included in the cabinet as the Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs. In May 2019, he contested from Amritsar as a BJP candidate. But Gurjit Singh of Congress lost to Aujla. In May 2019, Puri became Minister of State for Aviation (Independent Charge) and Minister of State for Commerce and Industry. In July 2021, when there was a reshuffle in the cabinet, he was promoted to the post of Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister in the second Modi ministry as well as Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister. His ministry is also credited with the launch of the Central Vista Project, which is the physical revival of the Parliament of India in New Delhi. Even though this mission received criticism and comments from the opposition. But the project continued with an estimate of completion by 2024. In March 2022, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, he was sent to Budapest in Hungary, a neighboring country in Ukraine to assist in coordination efforts. He was one of the special messengers of four ministers and successfully brought 6711 students back to India after Operation Ganga initiative.
Books, research papers and magazines
Hardeep is a skilled administrative officer, being an excellent politician as well as a writings. Many books, research papers and magazines have been published so far. Some of which in select works
Dangerous intervention: Politics of Security Council and Anarchy (publisher: Harper Collins, 2016; ISBN 978-93517777595),
Confusion politics: Future return (publisher: Penguin Viking, 2018; ISBN 978-0670090259), the same “Libya: Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and Rwanda’s Ghost” (Publisher: The Globalist, 2016) etc. It has been liked.
