LONDON:(Report By Saghir Alam) According to global Times Media Europe, The Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak is set to make history by becoming the first Hindu and first non-white person of Pakistan and Indian origin to become Britain’s prime minister.
Rishi Sunak MP, 42, was born in Southampton to Hindu-Punjabi parents but his grandparents were born and raised in the Pakistani city of Gujranwala in Pakistan’s Punjab province.
The incoming British prime minister, in an odd way, is both an Indian and a Pakistani by heritage. Rishi is a practising Hindu and takes his Commons oath on the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred Sanskrit text.
Rishi’s paternal grandfather Ramdas Sunak left Gujranwala to work as a clerk in Nairobi in 1935. His wife, Suhag Rani Sunak, moved to Delhi first from Gujranwala, along with her mother-in-law, before travelling to Kenya in 1937 to join her husband. Ramdas and Suhag Rani had six children, three sons and three daughters.
Rishi’s father Yashveer Sunak was born in 1949 in Nairobi. He arrived in Liverpool in 1966 and went on to study medicine at the University of Liverpool. Yashveer married Usha in Leicester in 1977. Three years later, Rishi was born in 1980 in Southampton. His parents ran a successful pharmacy business till their retirement.
“The Sunaks are a Punjabi Khatri family from Gujranwala, now in Pakistan,” tweeted one Queen Lioness 86, adding: “Ramdas Sunak, Rishi’s paternal grandfather, left Gujranwala to work as a clerk in Nairobi in 1935.”
Ramdas’ wife, Suhag Rani, moved to Delhi first from Gujranwala, along with her mother-in-law, before travelling to Kenya in 1937, according to Queen Lioness 86, who provided all details about the family, including the family’s migration and the birth of Rishi in 1980 in Southampton.
As soon as it became clear that Rishi will become the next prime minister, many on Twitter laid claim to the new British leader.
“I think Pakistan should also lay claim on Rishi Sunak because his paternal grandparents were from Gujranwala who from there migrated to Kenya and then to Britain,” one Shafat Shah tweeted. Someone with a Twitter handle as Grand Finale wrote: “Wow! What a tremendous achievement. A Pakistani has now ascended to the highest office in England. Anything is possible if you believe.
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