Look at the game of nature that after Britain ruled India for 100 years, an Indian became the Prime Minister... Rishi Sunak, the son-in-law of Infosys Ltd.'s CEO and Chairman Narayan Murthy, became the new Prime Minister of Britain.
Rishi Sunak ( born 12 May 1980) is a British politician who served as Finance minister 2020 to 2022, having previously served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2019 to 2020. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond (Yorks) since 2015.
Born in Southampton to Indian parents who migrated from East Africa, Sunak was educated at Winchester College. He subsequently read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Lincoln College, Oxford, and later gained an MBA from Stanford University as a Fulbright Scholar. While studying at Stanford, he met his future wife Akshata Murty, the daughter of N. R. Narayana Murthy, the Indian billionaire businessman who founded Infosys. Sunak and Murthy are the 222nd richest people in Britain, with a combined fortune of £730m as of 2022.After graduating, he worked for Goldman Sachs and later as a partner at the hedge fund firms The Children's Investment Fund Management and Theleme Partners.
Elected for Richmond (Yorks) at the 2015 general election,he served in Theresa May's second government as Parlimentary Under-secretary of state for local government. He voted three times in favour of May's Brexit withdrawal agreement. After May resigned, Sunak was a supporter of Boris Johnson's campaign to become Conservative leader. After Johnson was elected and appointed Prime Minister, he appointed Sunak as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Sunak replaced Sajid Javid as Chancellor of the Exchequer after his resignation in February 2020.
As Chancellor, Sunak was prominent in the government's response to the economic ramifications of the decision to impose lockdown to deal with the COVID-19🦠😷 pandemic in the United Kingdom. In April 2022, he became the first Chancellor in British history to have been sanctioned for breaking the law while in office after being issued a fixed penalty notice for breaching COVID-19 regulations during lockdowns. He resigned chancellor on 5 July 2022, citing the economic policy differences between himself and Johnson in his resignation letter. On 8 July 2022, he announced his candidacy to replace Johnson in the Conservative Party leadership election.
Rishi Sunak Early life and education:-
Sunak was born on 12 May 1980 in Southampton to Indian parents Yashvir and Usha Sunak. He is the eldest of three siblings.His father Yashvir was born and raised in the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya (present-day Kenya), while his mother Usha was born in Tanganyika(which later became part of Tanzania).His grandparents were born in Punjab Province, British India, and migrated from East Africa with their children to the UK in the 1960s. Yashvir was a general practitioner, and Usha was a pharmacist who ran a local pharmacy.
Sunak attended Stroud School, a preparatory school in Romsey, Hampshire, and Winchester College, a boys' independent boarding school, where he was head boy and the editor of the school paper.He waited tables at a curry house in Southampton during his summer holidays.He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Lincoln College, Oxford, graduating with a first in 2001.While he was still at university, he undertook an internship at Conservative Campaign Headquarters.In 2001, he was interviewed along with his parents for the BBC documentary Middle Classes: Their Rise and Sprawl,during which he remarked, "I have friends who are aristocrats, I have friends who are upper class, I have friends who are working class… well, not working class".In 2006, he gained an MBA from Stanford University, where he was a Fulbright scholar.
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