RISHI SUNAK: the first Hindu to lead Britain.

 RISHI SUNAK: the first person of colour and first Hindu to lead Britain.

Rishi Sunak was born on May 12, 1980 in Southampton, United Kingdom (Southampton, general hospital). Both his parents are of Indian descent.  His grand father was emigrated from Panjab, in northwestern India, to East Africa, where his father and mother were born in Kenya and Tanzania respectively. They met and married and their families migrated to Southampton, in southern England in the 1960s. Sunak's father, Yashvir Sunak was a National Health Service general practitioner and mother, Usha Sunak, ran a chemist shop. Sunak's parents are pharmacists. Sunak was the eldest of three sibling.

He has scripted history by becoming Britain's first Indian origin Prime Minister and took oath as MP from Yorkshire, on the Bhagavad Gita in the parliament. He was the first UK parliamentarian to do so in UK history.

EDUCATION: 

Sunak attend Strout School, a preparatory school in Romsey and attend the prestigious Winchester College, a boys' independent boarding School where he was a head boy. He was a waiter at a curry house in Southampton during his summer vacation. He studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford. There he was president of the Oxford Trading and Investment Society, which provided students to with opportunities to learn about financial markets and global trading. While at Oxford, Sunak also had an internship at the headquarters of the conservative Party. He did his MBA as a Fulbright scholar from California at Ivy league college, Stanford University. He is also a former investment banker. 

RISHI SUNAK WIFE:

Rishi Sunak married to Infosys chief Narayan Murthy's daughter Akshata Murthy in 2009. They have two daughters, Krishana and Anoushika.

Akshata runs her own fashion label, Akshata Designs, and is among the wealthiest women in Britain, She is also a director of venture capital firm "Catamaran Ventures" founded by her billionaire dad, Narayan Murthy.

POLITICAL ENTRY:

• In 2010 Sunak began working for Conservative party. During this period he also became involved with Policy Exchange, a leading Conservative think tank, for which he became the head of the Black Minority Ethic (BME) Research Unit in 2014.
• In 2014 Sunak was chosen as the Conservative Party's candidate for the House of Commons representing Richmond in North Yorkshire.
• In 2015 Sunak was elected by a commanding majority. He supported Brexit and respond to make UK freer, fairer and more prosperous.

• From 2015 to 2017 he was a member of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Selected Committee and parliamentary private secretary at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
• In 2018 he was appointment to his first ministerial post as undersecretary of state at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
• Chief secretary to the Treasury in July 2019.

AS A FRONTRUNNER FOR UK PM:

Rishi Sunak, on July 8, 2022, a day after the resignation of former UK PM Boris Johnson, announced that he would stand as a candidate in the Conservative Party Leadership Election to replace Boris Johnson. The conservative politicians who supported Johnson criticized Sunak as leading the charge in bringing down the Prime Minister. 

POLICIES THAT MAKE VOTE FOR SUNAK:

• Rishi was a strong leaver for Brexit and has always voted in favour of tightening immigration laws and rising higher rate tax brackets.
• He proposed ideas of charging 10 dollars for those who missed GP ( general practice should record all appointments in their appointment book -discrete interactions between a health and care professional and a patient, or a patient's representative) appointments in order to help the huge NHS (National Health Service) backlog following the pandemic.
• He has also spoke of linking migration with foreign policy - countries who collaborate with the UK on the return of migrants would be rewarded with aid, trade and visas.
• He has also committed to the UK's Rwanda scheme and has hinted at replicating this scheme in other countries.
• Sunak's "Eat Out to Help Out" scheme.