British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who is in Delhi for the G20 Summit, said that he hopes to visit a 'mandir' (Hindu temple) while he is in the national capital. He said that he is ‘proud’ to be a Hindu and that his faith is ‘very important’ to him.
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00:00 The British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who is in Delhi for the G20 summit, said that
00:13 he hopes to visit a Mandir, Hindu temple, while he is in the national capital.
00:19 He said that he is proud to be a Hindu and that his faith is very important to him.
00:24 Sunak and his wife Akshita Moorthy landed at New Delhi's Palam airport on Friday.
00:29 They were greeted by the Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Ashwini Kumar
00:34 Chaubey with a Jai Sia Ram.
00:38 Ashwini Kumar Chaubey also gave Rudraksh, a copy of Bhagavad Gita, and the Hanuman Chalisa
00:43 to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife.
00:46 Telling you more about the UK PM's Indian route, the 43-year-old Rishi Sunak is the youngest
00:53 Prime Minister of Britain.
00:55 Not only this, he is the first British Prime Minister to have roots in India.
01:00 Born in the country's Southampton area, Sunak is a third-generation British Indian whose
01:06 grandparents were from Punjab.
01:08 Rishi Sunak, son of a doctor father and a pharmacist mother, went to some of the best
01:14 schools in England.
01:16 He flaunts degrees from Manchester, Oxford and Stanford in California.
01:21 While he was at Stanford, Sunak met his wife Akshita Moorthy, daughter of Infosys co-founder
01:27 Narayana Moorthy and philanthropist and Indian educator Sudha Moorthy.
01:33 Sunak and Moorthy, a billionaire, married in 2009 and have two daughters together.
01:39 After getting elected as MP in 2015, Sunak took oath on the Bhagavad Gita in the Parliament.
01:47 He has often talked about his Indian heritage and how his parents embedded values and culture
01:53 in him.
01:54 Sunak first gained national attention when during the COVID-19 pandemic, he announced
02:00 a massive financial package to secure lakhs of jobs in the country after the nationwide
02:06 lockdown was announced.
02:08 With a net worth of $700 million, Rishi Sunak is one of the wealthiest politicians in the
02:14 United Kingdom.
02:16 He has a mansion in Yorkshire and along with his wife, he owns a property in Kensington
02:22 in central London.
02:24 The British Prime Minister, who is of Indian origin, has often emphasised his Hindu roots
02:29 and said he is proud of it.
02:32 Sunak, the first British PM of Hindu origin, also spoke on Hinduism.
02:36 He said, "I am a proud Hindu, and that's how I was raised.
02:41 That's how I am.
02:42 Hopefully, I can visit a mandir while I'm here for the next couple of days.
02:47 We just had Raksha Bandhan, so from my sisters and my cousins, I have all my rakhis, and
02:53 I didn't have time to celebrate Janmashtami properly the other day," he further said.
02:58 "But hopefully, I said I can make it up for that if we visit a mandir this time.
03:03 But it's something that is very important to me.
03:05 I think faith is something that helps everybody who has faith in their lives, particularly
03:10 when they have these stressful jobs like I do.
03:14 Having faith to give you resilience, to give you strength is important," he added.
03:19 For his connect to India, Sunak said, "It is personally incredibly special for me to
03:24 be back in India.
03:25 It's a country I love dearly, a country where my family are from.
03:29 But I have come here in this role to represent the UK, to find ways to forge closer links
03:35 with India and play a part in making sure that India has an incredibly successful G20."
03:42 During the three-day tour, Rishi Sunak will also meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi
03:49 in a bilateral meeting.
04:08 to be a huge success and of course cricket World Cup to come as well.
04:12 So this is shaping up to be a great year for India.
04:14 It demonstrates India's place on the global stage, its importance to geopolitics and again,
04:20 it's something I'm very proud of and I know everyone here will be incredibly proud of
04:23 the year that India is having.
04:25 But you're right to talk about the children I spent time with because India's youth represent
04:28 its future and that's what should fill everybody with confidence about India's trajectory over
04:33 the coming years and decades.
04:35 The school children I spent time with today with Akshata are so bright, so confident.
04:39 They are going to ensure that India has an incredibly important role to play in world
04:43 affairs for years to come because their energy, their confidence, their intelligence is fantastic
04:48 and it's an inspiration to see and I'm really pleased that this British Council operation
04:53 here is working with them to strengthen those links between our countries.
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