The election of Rishi Sunak as the next Prime Minister of Britain has received massive support from Indians on social media. The UK-born Indian-origin Tory MP has not only become the youngest person to become British PM but also the first non-white, Indian-origin, Hindu man to get elected to the post.바카라 웹사이트
Soon after it became apparent that the Sunak would become the next PM, congratulatory messages started pouring from across states and parties.바카라 웹사이트Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Sunak on Twitter and said he is looking forward to “working closely together on global issues.” Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and corporate honchos congratulated Sunak. So did Punjab CM Bhagwant Singh Mann. Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti have also expressed their good wishes for the former British finance minister.바카라 웹사이트
Indian TV channels also바카라 웹사이트appeared star-struck by Sunak라이브 바카라 victory. Cheerful proclamations like “Indian son rises over the empire",바카라 웹사이트바카라 웹사이트“Battered Britain gets ‘desi’ big boss.” and others of the ilk were flashed across tv news channels.
But what does Sunak's appointment as PM really mean for India?
'Make India-UK relations a two way exchange': Sunak
In his turn, Sunak, a practicing Hindu바카라 웹사이트who usually makes no bones about his Indian roots and heritage, has declared that wants to바카라 웹사이트change the UK-India relationship.바카라 웹사이트
The statement had come earlier in August when Sunak had been competing with then Foreign Secretary Liz Truss for the post of PM, a contest that truss ultimately won. Addressing a group of바카라 웹사이트British Indian Conservative Party members who were voting바카라 웹사이트in the election, Sunak had said in August that he wanted to make India-UK relations바카라 웹사이트more of a "two-way exchange that opens up easy access to UK students and companies in India".바카라 웹사이트
The Conservative leaders in support of the바카라 웹사이트Tory MP for Richmond in Yorkshire have바카라 웹사이트also claimed that Britain was not "racist" and that Sunak's바카라 웹사이트Indian heritage and ethnic minority background had no part to play in the contest to succeed Boris Johnson as the바카라 웹사이트Conservative Party leader and British Prime Minister.
“This country is not racist. For Rishi to reach this stage, it proves that merit is valued,” said Lord Dolar Popat, a veteran Tory peer.
Organizations like the Conservative Friends of India (CFIN) diaspora group in north London has also shown support for Sunak. In August, Sunak had바카라 웹사이트greeted a바카라 웹사이트gathering of the same with a mix of traditional greetings such as “namaste, salaam, khem cho and kidda” and even broke into Hindi: “aap sab mere parivar ho (you all are my family)".
Responding바카라 웹사이트to a question about bilateral ties from CFIN co-chair Reena Ranger, Sunak had stated that “We know the UK-India relationship is important. We represent the living bridge between our two countries".바카라 웹사이트
“We are all very aware of the opportunity for the UK to sell things and do things in India, but actually we need to look at that relationship differently because there is an enormous amount that we here in the UK can learn from India.
“I want to make sure that it라이브 바카라 easy for our students to also travel to India and learn, that it라이브 바카라 also easy for our companies and Indian companies to work together because it라이브 바카라 not just a one-way relationship, it라이브 바카라 a two-way relationship, and that라이브 바카라 the type of change I want to bring to that relationship,” he said.
'China biggest threat'
Sunak's popularity among Indians might also have to do with the fact that the Tory leader has openly called China, India's South Asian neighbour with whom it shares contentious geopolitical relations, the biggest enemy of the UK.바카라 웹사이트
Earlier in August, Sunak had doubled down on his stand about the need to be “very robust” in defending the UK against Beijing라이브 바카라 aggressiveness.
“China and the Chinese Communist Party represent the biggest threat to our economic and thereby national security that this country has faced in a long time and we need to be alive to that,” he said.
“Be in no doubt, as your Prime Minister I will do whatever it takes to keep you, your families and our country safe because that라이브 바카라 the first duty of a Conservative Prime Minister,” he said.
Indians in UK
Meanwhile, Sunak has long been enjoying the support of the Indian diaspora who treat him almost like a rockstar.바카라 웹사이트
In August during his campaign trail against Truss, Sunak had been met with dhol beats and loud cheers at the Dhamecha Lohana Centre in Harrow where he바카라 웹사이트spent hours interacting with hundreds of Tory members who queued up to shake hands with him.
He was showered with blessings by the elderly in the crowd, patted on the back by others and eight-year-old Tanish Sahu got a special picture as Sunak carried him in his arms.
Amita Mishra, Trustee of Shree Jagannatha Society UK, handed over a set of gold-plated deities all the way from India.
“We are working on creating a Jagannath Temple in London and this gift is a special blessing all the way from India,” said Mishra, who was accompanied by a pandit who performed a victory shloka from the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ as the deities were handed over to Sunak on stage.
A British Sikh Tory member in the crowd waited hours to get a special bottle of Jack Daniels whisky signed by Sunak – despite both him and the former Chancellor being teetotalers.바카라 웹사이트
Sunak라이브 바카라 handling of the Bounce Back Loan scheme introduced in the wake of the Covid-19 lockdowns had led to some reservations against the leader.바카라 웹사이트A skeptical British Indian investment banker had told PTI in August there was discontentment regarding the scheme which he claimed had been "anused" ny many. However, all qualms seem to now have vanished after Truss's resignation and Sunak's former boss Boris Johnson dropping out of the race for PM soon after.바카라 웹사이트
(With inputs from Agencies)
