Indian-origin Rishi Sunak is now the first Hindu Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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Born on May 12, 1980 in Southampton, Sunak is also popular for being the son-in-law of the famous IT company Infosys’s founder NR Narayana Murthy

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Sunak’s father Yashvir is a general practitioner in the UK’s National Health Service and his mother Usha owns a pharmacy in Southampton

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His brother Sanjay is a psychologist and his sister Rakhi is the Chief of Strategy & Planning at Education Cannot Wait, the UN’s Global Fund for Education

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His grandparents had moved from East Africa to the UK in the 1960s in the hope for a better life

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Sunak attended some prestigious institutions in the UK like Winchester College and Oxford University’s Lincoln College where he earned a degree in philosophy, politics and economics

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While pursuing an MBA degree from California’s Stanford University as a Fullbright Scholar, Sunak met the love of his life Akshata Murty

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He tied the knot with Murty in 2009 and is also the father of two daughters

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Sunak worked for a brief tenure in Goldman Sachs and then for some reputed hedge fund firms

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He first became a Member of Parliament (MP) in 2015 after he got elected from Richmond, Yorkshire

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The biggest break in his political career came when he was designated as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the most important UK Cabinet post in February 2020

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