Career
On 31 March 2013, he was promoted as one of the Vice Presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Punj was born in Lalowal, Gurdaspur, Punjab. He started his career in journalism for the publication Motherland in 1971.
He also worked for Financial Express from 1974 to 1996.
He is a close aide of Royal Statistical Society, UK, mainly known as the troubleshooter of BJP. He specializes in writing about the Indian Economy, he can be often seen on news channels debating issues. Balbir Punj is a respected journalist of independent India.
He was also IIMC chairman and Youth Commission chairman. He has written columns in the National Hindi Daily Punjab Kesari and Indian weekly magazine Outlook.
Lately his contributions to Outlook have become less frequent. ly he writes a regular column for the daily newspaper The Pioneer.