British Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned on Thursday after a rebellion in the party. Johnson was under increased pressure to resign after 40 Conservative Party ministers resigned. At the same time, now former UK Finance Minister Rishi Sunak has announced his candidacy for the post of Prime Minister. Sunak is also the first Indian-origin politician to hold the position of finance minister of the UK.
Sunak announced his candidature by tweeting and said that let’s restore confidence, strengthen the economy and unite the country. After Johnson’s resignation, a new party leader will be elected who will take over as the country’s prime minister.
Rishi Sunak is a former finance minister of the UK. After his resignation, 40 ministers resigned one by one and as a result, Boris Johnson had to resign as Prime Minister. After the resignation of Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak is considered to be at the forefront of the race for the post of PM. Experts also say that the resignation of Rishi Sunak and other ministers was to put pressure on Johnson.
Rishi Sunak is the husband of Infosys co-founder and Akshata Murthy, daughter of veteran businessman Narayan Murthy. After studying at Oxford, Sunak went to Stanford University for MBA and it was here that he met Akshata Murthy.
Sunak became popular among the people during the Corona period: Sunak was first elected MP from Richmond, Yorkshire in 2015. At the same time, during the tenure of the Finance Minister, amid the Corona epidemic, there was a lot of discussion about the steps taken by him. When the slowdown started increasing due to Corona, Sunak took steps to save the country’s business by announcing a state-backed loan of 330 billion pounds. During the economic turmoil caused by the Corona epidemic, Rishi Sunak was constantly associated with the people, due to which he remained very popular among the people.