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Hardeep Singh Puri
Official portrait, 2021
Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 July 2021
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Dharmendra Pradhan
Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs
In office 3 September 2017 – 10 June 2024
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Narendra Singh Tomar
Succeeded by	Manohar Lal Khattar
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Civil Aviation & Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry
In office 30 May 2019 – 7 July 2021
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Suresh Prabhu
Succeeded by	Jyotiraditya Scindia
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 January 2018
Preceded by	Manohar Parrikar
Constituency	Uttar Pradesh
Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations
In office 4 May 2009 – 27 February 2013
President	Pratibha Patil Pranab Mukherjee
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Preceded by	Nirupam Sen
Succeeded by	Asoke Kumar Mukerji
Personal details
Born	(1952-02-15) 15 February 1952 (age 72) Delhi, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri
Alma mater	Hindu College, University of Delhi (BA, MA)
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Civil servant
Website	hardeepsinghpuri.com

Hardeep Singh Puri (born 15 February 1952) is an Indian politician and former diplomat who is serving as 33rd Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas since 2021.

He is a 1974 batch Indian Foreign Service officer who served as the Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013.

Puri joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in January 2014, and became a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh in November 2020. Earlier in May 2019, he had taken charge as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing and Urban Affairs and Civil Aviation and Minister of State for Commerce and Industry.

Previously, Puri has served as the chairman of the United Nations Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee from January 2011 to February 2013; and joined International Peace Institute as a senior advisor in June 2013. He presents Smart Solutions Challenge & Inclusive Cities Awards 2022.

Early life & education

Hardeep Singh Puri was born in Delhi. His father was a civil servant, and he attended boarding schools in India as his father was posted in countries where there were no options for English-language education. He is an alumnus of The Frank Anthony Public School, New Delhi. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in History and Master of Arts in History from the Hindu College, Delhi. He then worked as a lecturer of History at St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

Career

Civil service

Hardeep Puri has served as Joint secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of External Affairs from 1994 to 1997, and from 1999 to 2002. He has also served as Joint secretary to the Government of India in Ministry of Defence from 1997 to 1999. He was India's ambassador to Brazil. He later served as Secretary to the Government of India (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs from 2009 to 2013.

Puri has been stationed at important diplomatic posts in Brazil, where he was ambassador, 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 Negotiations Project to help Developing Countries in the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations.

United Nations

He also served as the chairman of the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee from January 2011 to February 2013, and as President of the United Nations Security Council in August 2011, and, again, in November 2012.

Politics

Ambassador Puri joined the International Peace Institute as a senior advisor in June 2013. He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in January 2014, expressing admiration for the party's approach to national security.

He is serving as the Member of Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh from 2018. Puri was inducted into the cabinet as the Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, after Venkaiah Naidu was elevated to the post of Vice President of India in 2017. In May 2019, he contested from Amritsar as a BJP Candidate, but lost to Gurjeet Singh Aujla of the Congress.

In May 2019, Puri became the Minister of State (with Independent Charge) for Civil Aviation and Minister of State for Commerce and Industry.

In July 2021, he was promoted to the post of Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, along with Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs in the Second Modi ministry when there was a cabinet overhaul.

His ministry also holds the credit for the launch of the Central Vista Project, the physical revamp of Parliament of India in New Delhi. Even though the mission received baclashes and comments from the opposition, the project continued with the completion projected by 2024.

In March 2022, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, he was sent to the neighboring nation of Ukraine, Budapest in Hungary to assist coordination efforts. He was one of the minister in a special envoy of four ministers and successfully brought back 6711 students to India, following the Operation Ganga initiative.

Electoral performance

2019 Indian general elections: Amritsar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Gurjeet Singh Aujla	445,032	51.78	1.69
	BJP	Hardeep Singh Puri	3,45,406	40.19	9.74
	AAP	Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal	20,087	2.34	12.44
	CPI	Daswinder Kaur	16,335	1.90	0.14
	NOTA	None of the Above	8,763	1.02	0.06
Majority			99,626	11.59	8.05
Turnout			8,60,582	57.07	13.32
	INC hold		Swing

Personal life

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Hardeep Singh Puri is married to Ambassador Lakshmi Puri, of the Indian Foreign Service, and, later, the United Nations cadre, who is a former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and a former Deputy Executive Director of UN Women. They have two daughters. His brother, Pradeep Puri, is an IAS officer of the 1979 batch, who played an instrumental role in the construction of the DND Flyway.

Honours

•  Brazil: Grand Cross of the Order of Rio Branco (1 December 2022)

Books, research papers and journals

Hardeep is a published author of several books, research papers, and journals. Included below is a selection of his works:

Books

• Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos (Publisher: HarperCollins, 2016; ISBN 978-9351777595)
• Delusional Politics: Back To The Future (Publisher: Penguin Viking, 2018; ISBN 978-0670090259)

Articles

• "Libya: Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and the Ghost of Rwanda" (Publisher: The Globalist, 2016)

See also

• Manjeev Singh Puri
• Navtej Sarna
• Taranjit Singh Sandhu

References

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MOS	Hardeep Singh Puri(incumbent)

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