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Rishi Sunak biography in English

Rishi Sunak biography in English

Rishi Sunak is a British politician of Indian origin who has been the Chancellor of the Exchequer since February 2020.

Rishi Sunak was born into a Hindu family; his grandparents immigrated to the UK from East Africa about 1960, making him a first-generation immigrant in the UK.

In October 2014, Rishi Sunak was chosen to represent the Conservative party in Richmond (Yorks). In the same year, he served as the director of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Research Unit at the think tank Policy Exchange.

Rishi Sunak joined the Privy Council and was named Chief Secretary to the Treasury by Boris Johnson in 2019. In the general election of 2019, he was re-elected.

In August 2009, Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murthy got married.Akshata is the child of Infosys founder and Indian billionaire N. R. Narayana Murthy.