Retired diplomat Hardeep Singh Puri, who was inducted into the Union council of ministers, has a distinguished four-decade career in diplomacy spanning the multilateral arena behind him.
The 65 year old, who took oath as a minister of state, has served as India's ambassador to the UN in New York and Geneva, and with his decades of diplomatic experience, his presence in the council of ministers would be a rarity.
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