Indian-origin Rishi Sunak has been elected unopposed as the leader of the Conservative Party after Penny Mordent announced his withdrawal from the race. Sunak will be the youngest leader to become Prime Minister of Britain in 210 years.
Infosys co-founder Narayan Murthy congratulated his son-in-law Rishi Sunak on becoming the Prime Minister of Britain. Giving the first response, he said that he is proud of him and we wish him success. Son of a pharmacist mother and doctor father, Sunak was educated in one of the most famous schools in England, Winchester and then Oxford. He worked for three years at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and later did his MBA from Stanford, California, where he met Akshata Murthy, daughter of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy.
Rishi Sunak married Akshata in 2009. Sunak and Akshata have two daughters, Krishna and Anushka. Sunak, 42, won the Conservative Party leadership race on Sunday and is set to become Britain’s first prime minister of Indian origin. Narayan Murthy, in his first response to the news agency via email, said, ‘Congratulations Rishi. We are proud of him and wish him success. “We are confident that he will do his best for the people of Britain,” he said.
NR Narayana Murthy, Infosys founder & father-in-law of Britain’s next PM Rishi Sunak: “Congratulations to Rishi. We are proud of him and we wish him success. We are confident he will do his best for the people of the United Kingdom “
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History created by becoming the PM of Britain
Rishi Sunak of Indian origin has created history by becoming the new Prime Minister of Britain. Sunak has been elected unopposed as the leader of the Conservative Party after Penny Mordent announced her withdrawal from the race exactly on the day of Diwali. Sunak will be the youngest leader to become Prime Minister of Britain in 210 years. Rishi, a former UK finance minister, is a devout Hindu and is about to enter 10 Downing Street in London. 10 Downing Street is the official residence-cum-office of the Prime Minister of Britain.
Big challenge in front of Sunak
Sunak will assume power at 10 Downing Street at a time when Britain is grappling with the triple whammy of slow growth – high inflation, rising energy prices in the wake of Ukraine’s war and budget failures that have left the country internationally challenged. weakened its financial credibility. His first task would be to restore Britain’s international financial credibility, as outgoing Prime Minister Liz Truss’s plans to cut taxes and an expensive energy price guarantee rattled the bond market. It would have no choice but to raise tax rates and cut spending, which would be unpopular and could have unpredictable political consequences.
Britain wants to learn from India
Sunak’s outlook on India-UK bilateral relations goes beyond just a business opportunity in India for the UK and the UK wants to learn from India. Sunak, during his campaign for leadership in the party in the last contest, had said that he wanted to transform the UK-India relationship to make it a two-way exchange, giving UK students and companies easy access to India.
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