Harsimrat Kaur Badal is the Union Cabinet Minister of Food Processing in the Government of India and Member of Parliament from Bathinda.

Harsimrat Kaur Badal made a foray into politics when she won the Lok Sabha election from the Bhatinda constituency in 2009. She was pitted against Raninder Singh, son of Amarinder Singh (the then chief minister of Punjab) and beat him with a wide margin in the elections. She gained further access into people’s hearts during her first ever speech on December 3, 2009; where she spoke passionately displaying her concern about the victims and survivors of the 1984 Sikh riots. Badal also highlighted the contribution of Sikhs to the Indian freedom struggle, claiming that 70% of all those executed by the colonial government and 80% of those sent to exile in the Andamans were Sikhs.

Harsimrat Kaul Badal has a degree in textile design. Her husband is the son of Parkash Singh Badal, chief minister of Punjab and head ot the Shiromani Akali Dal. She is the daughter of S.S. Majithia, who is of the family that founded The Tribune, a prominent Chandigarh newspaper.

It was in 1991 that she married Sukhbir Singh Badal and is a loving mother of two girls and a boy. Harsimrat has been re-elected as an MP from Bathinda in 2014 having defeated Congress-PPP joint candidate, Manpreet Badal. She has been appointed in the Modi government as Union Minister for Food Processing.