Indians are going to be so proud as Rishi Sunak becomes the new Prime Minister of United Kingdom, which colonise India for over 200 years.
The former Goldman Sachs analyst will be the United Kingdom’s first prime minister of Indian origin.
Rishi Sunak’s Rise as PM is a historic landmark as the Hindu descendant of immigrants from Britain’s old empire in India and East Africa will take charge of the world’s fifth largest economy.
Facts You Didn’t Know About Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak is not ‘Indian’
Born in 1980 in England’s Southampton, Rishi Sunak got a degree in Philosophy from the Winchester college and then went on pursue Politics and Economic at the Oxford University follow by an MBA degree from Stanford.
Rishi Sunak has refer himself as having “Indian roots” as his grandparents hail from India’s Punjab.
Rishi Sunak’s grandfather Ramdas Sunak migrate to Nairobi, Kenya in 1935.
His father Yashveer, who was born in Nairobi in 1949, immigrate to England in 1966.
Rishi Sunak tied knot with Usha Berry who had Indian roots.
Usha Berry was the daughter of Raghubir Berry, a Punjabi who had move to Tanganyika (today’s Tanzania), and Tanganyika-born Sraksha.
Yashveer and Usha Sunak, both pharmacists, were bless with a baby boy in 1980 and name him Rishi Sunak.
Rishi Sunak is married to Akshata Murty, daughter of the Indian billionaire NR Narayana Murthy.
Youngest Britain PM
42-year-old Rishi Sunak became the youngest PM of the United Kingdom in over 200 years.
In 1783, William Pitt the Younger took charge as Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1783 at age 24.
Rishi Sunak’s Rise
Rishi Sunak was elect from the Richmond (Yorkshire) constituency in 2015.
In 7 years, Rishi Sunak took reins of the country as the Prime Minister.
Before him, it was David Cameron went on to become Prime Minister from MP in nine years.
Rishi Sunak was elect to Parliament in 2001 and appoint as Prime Minister in 2010.
Rishi Sunak was the Junior minister for local government in the year 2018-19.
He then became the chief secretary to the Treasury in 2019-20.
Rishi Sunak then went on to become the chancellor of the exchequer in the year 2020-22.
He came to national attention when he became finance minister under Johnson just as the COVID-19 pandemic hit Britain.
Rishi Sunak won a lot of praise for rapidly introducing ‘furlough’ support schemes worth billions of pounds to preserve jobs and businesses during 18 months of Covid lockdowns.
The combine fortune of Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty is estimate at £730 million, the double estimate wealth (£300 million-£350 million) of King Charles III and Camilla, the Queen Consort, according to the reports.
The report said that Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty is the owner of four properties spread across the world that are value at more than £15 million.
Akshata Murty’s report to have 0.91% stake in Infosys which is worth around £700 million.
Rishi Sunak a ‘Coca-Cola Lover’
In 2021, Rishi Sunak told two school students that he was a “Coca-Cola lover”.
Rishi Sunak also said his favourite was “Mexican Coke”.
