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His wife is the daughter of Indian billionaire NR Narayana Murthy. She also serves as the Director of Catamaran Ventures.
Sunak was first elected MP from the Richmond (York) constituency in 2015 and was re-elected in 2017 and 2019. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 13 February 2020 to 5 July 2022.
Rishi Sunak was born on 12 May 1980 in Southampton, UK. His family is Indian Punjabi Hindu. His mother Usha Sunak was a pharmacist and father Yashvir Sunak was a general physician. Her mother was a businesswoman and would run her own chemist shop.
Rishi Sunak was born in a Hindu family, so he has the habit of going to the temple since childhood. He is so attached to the Hindu Vedic Society temple in Southampton because his grandfather Ram Das Sunak was a founding member of this temple.
Rishi Sunak did his early education from Winchester College, which is a boarding school. He was a very bright student since starting and participated in many activities there.
His name has been written in the Rich List 2022 in the Sunday Times. In which he has been ranked 222. Due to which he has become the first frontline politician to be included in the list of rich.
Rishi Sunak first met his wife at Stanford University. Where he and his wife were studying MBA.
Rishi Sunak was born in UK while his parents also born in different parts of the world. But his grand parents were from India, so they consider themselves Indians.
Rishi Sunak, while serving as the Finance Minister of Britain, issued a coin in the name of Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation of India.
Rishi Sunak likes to stay fit and for this he performs various activities like playing cricket, football etc. He performs these activities to keep his mind calm and body fit to work efficiently.