HUBBALLI: Rishi Sunak (42), whose wife Akshata Murty hails from Hubballi, will be the new prime minister of the United Kingdom.
Sunak was declared the leader of Britain’s Conservative Party on Monday after fellow contender Penny Mordaunt pulled out of the race. Sunak was born in Southampton, UK, and belongs to a Punjabi family. His mother was born in Tanzania and his father in Kenya.
Sunak married Akshata in 2009. The couple met while studying at Stanford University in the US. They have two daughters.
Akshata (42) is the daughter of Infosys Technologies’ Co-founder N.R Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murty. Sudha Murty was born in Shiggaon and studied at BVB College of Technology (now KLE Technological University). Akshata was raised by her maternal grandparents in Hubballi.
Sudha Murty founded MT Vimala Kulkarni Memorial School in Hubballi’s Bhavaninagar area in memory of her late mother.
