'India's awe inspiring journey under PM Modi's leadership...': Hardeep Singh Puri's 'interesting conversation' on HARDtalk after 2 decades

Expressing assurance astir the cardinal government's 'Viksit Bharat' (developed India) ambition, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership. The Union Minister, serving arsenic Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister nether since 2021, took to microblogging tract X (formerly Twitter) to stock parts of his interrogation to English writer Stephen Sackur for BBC programme HARDtalk. 

Puri said helium had archetypal appeared connected BBC HARDtalk successful 2002 arsenic India’s Deputy High Commissioner to the UK for a pointed treatment connected transverse borderline coercion with Tim Sebastian.

I had archetypal appeared connected BBC HARDtalk successful 2002 arsenic India’s Dy High Commissioner to the UK for a pointed treatment connected transverse borderline coercion with Tim Sebastian successful what was past regarded arsenic a rigorously researched program.
More than 2 decades later, I had an interesting… pic.twitter.com/YD3ACDm0dn

— Hardeep Singh Puri (@HardeepSPuri) February 7, 2025

Responding to a question connected whether India's stance connected Russian lipid makes it geopolitically vulnerable, Puri told Sackur: "Where the IEA is close is that 25 per cent of the full request summation successful the adjacent 2 decades volition travel from India... But contiguous there's much lipid successful the marketplace than determination are takers."

Russia's stock of India's full lipid imports, which stood astatine 38 per cent, is decreasing, said Puri. In November, India's import of Russian lipid deed its lowest since since June 2022, according to the Centre for Research connected Energy and Clean Air (CREA), a European think-tank. Till then, Russia was India's apical lipid supplier, followed by Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

India became the 2nd biggest purchaser of Russian crude lipid since Russia invaded Ukraine successful February 2022, primarily because of the availability of Russian lipid astatine a discount to different globally traded supplies.

"What the US told america and galore others is that they wanted america to bargain arsenic overmuch lipid from Russia arsenic we similar arsenic agelong arsenic we bought it astatine a tenable price... That was euphony to my ears," said Puri. 

His remarks resonate with the Modi government's committedness towards affordable and cleanable vigor for each citizens. 

The Modi administration's stance has been a taxable of involvement crossed overseas media.

The lipid curate described the speech arsenic "interesting" and spanning a scope of topics, including "India's awe inspiring journey" nether PM Modi, the region the country's vigor assemblage has travelled, its absorption connected clime goals, and "our steadfast and assured march into a glorious future". 

In January, Puri said that India would proceed buying crude lipid from Russia if it was disposable astatine a discount, explaining the Modi government's committedness to buying the astir economically-priced crude oil.