Akshata Murti – He Was Sent Away As A Child

Rishi Sunak was officially appointed Britain’s 57th Prime Minister on Tuesday. The appointment comes on the heels of the turmoil that has characterized British politics in recent times. In just a few months, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss both resigned as Prime Minister.

It remains to be seen how the British people will receive Sunak. But what is beyond doubt is that Sunak will be a historic Prime Minister of Great Britain. He will be the country’s first prime minister of Indian origin.

At his side in the prime minister’s term, Sunak is taking his wife Akshata Murti (42 years old) with him. The couple became common names well known to the British people in the past, and according to them times The 222th richest person in Britain, according to the newspaper, has a total fortune of £730m.

With that, the couple also became historic by being the first billionaire family to move to 10 Downing Street. A lot of the reasons for the couple’s wealth are due to Akshata in particular, as well as her father. We will come back to this later.

banished

Although Akshata Murti is now among the richest people in Britain, she was not brought up in a wealthy family. When she was born, the father was not supposed to be present, and received the news of the daughter’s birth from a colleague, since the family could not afford the phone at that time.

– Your mother and I were young then, struggling to find our way into our careers, the father wrote in a letter to his daughter, published in the book “The Legacy” from 2013, which BBC have mentioned.

A few months after Akshata was born in 1980, she was sent to her grandparents. The parents then moved to Mumbai, India for work. The father also wrote about this in his letter to his daughter.

– Two months after you were born in Hubli (a city in India, magazines. Note), you came with us to Mumbai, but we quickly found out that it was difficult being in charge of a child and running our jobs side by side. So we decided that you will spend the first phase of your life with your grandparents in Hubli, the father wrote in the letter to his daughter.

However, the decision to send a daughter to her grandparents should not be an easy one.

– Every weekend I took a plane to Belgaum (airport, magazines.), then rented a car to Hubli. Father wrote in the letter that it was very expensive, but I could not do without seeing you.

Bill Gates from India

The couple’s fortune has also sparked controversy, with many questioning whether the new prime minister is far from ordinary people – especially in the wake of economic challenges that have affected, and continue to affect, Britain and the rest of the world.

The criticism didn’t stop there either. In April of this year, Akshata Murti was criticized for not paying tax on her earnings outside the UK. But later, she agreed to pay British taxes on all her income, he writes Bloomberg.

Murti, who is of Indian origin and still holds Indian citizenship, is also the daughter of Narayana Murti, one of the richest men in India. The billionaire who has been dubbed “the Bill Gates of India” writes BBC.

Poor Brits

richer than queen elizabeth

A few years later, Akshata returned to live with her parents. The family then decided that they should not have a television in the house. The reason is that they should instead spend the time studying, reading, discussing and being with friends.

Over time, the family’s finances began to improve significantly when the father created the information technology company Infosys. The IT company was an important reason why he is now considered the “Indian Bill Gates”.

The IT company also had a huge impact on Akshata’s fortune. She owns 0.91% of Infosys, and her holdings are worth about £690 million, according to Watchman. In the NOK, this corresponds to approximately 8.3 billion NOK. According to the newspaper, she is thus richer than Queen Elizabeth. The Queen is said to have a fortune of nearly £365 million.

For her part, the mother pursued a career path as a computer engineer, becoming the first female engineer to work for the then largest automobile manufacturer in India. She later changed her career path, and today works to improve public health care.

met at university

Together, the couple owns at least four homes in the UK and California, according to The Guardian. One of the houses is located in Kensington, London, and is said to be worth an estimated £7 million.

Eventually, Akshata began studying economics and French in California.

Then she joined Stanford University, where in the mid-2000s she met her future husband. The couple met when they were 29 years old, and married four years later. Today they have two daughters.

The father was said to have been “a bit sad and jealous” at first when his daughter told him she had met the man who is now Britain’s new prime minister.

– But when I met Rishi I saw that he was everything I described him as – gorgeous, handsome, and most importantly: honest. I understood why your heart was stolen, the father wrote in the letter to his daughter.