Confident he will do his best for UK: Infosys founder Narayana Murthy reacts to son-in-law Rishi Sunak becoming UK PM

Sunak’s wife and Murthy’s daughter Akshata Murty’s stake in Infosys for instance is worth roughly around $700 million. Akshata and Sunak, who met while studying at Stanford, married at The Leela Palace in Bengaluru in 2009 and have two children.

In fact, Sunak, 42, is one of the wealthiest politicians in the UK, something for which he has come under fire in the past, for being disconnected from the problems of the working class.

Sunak, whose Punjab-born grandparents emigrated first to East Africa and then to Britain, is also a rare politician in the West who’s comfortable straddling his British, Indian and Hindu roots.

In an interview many years ago with Business Standard, he had said, “British Indian is what I tick on the census, we have a category for it. I am thoroughly British, this is my home and my country, but my religious and cultural heritage is Indian, my wife is Indian. I am open about being a Hindu,” he says. He points out, for instance, that he doesn’t eat beef “and it has never been a problem”. As for America, it is different: “Religion pervades political life there, and that is not the case here, thankfully.”