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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.  Please watch the video to know the details.    #RishiSunak #G20 #WelcomeToBharat                    ~PR.154~ED.155~HT.96~

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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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