Rishi Sunak Wife Akshata Murthy Profile: Britain has now got a new Prime Minister in the form of Rishi Sunak. He has become the 57th Prime Minister of Britain. This is happening for the first time in the history of Britain that the Prime Minister’s wife does not have UK citizenship. You read it right, Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murthy is the daughter of India’s famous businessman and co-founder of Infosys Narayan Murthy and she has Indian citizenship.
Akshata Murthy owns shares in Infosys and has a net worth of around £430 million. Narayan Murthy, along with some of his friends, started a tech company in the year 1981. At present, Infosys, this outsourcing company with a market value of about $ 75 billion, has changed India as the back office of the world.
Narayana Murthy
The year 1974 marked a life-changing moment for the Infosys chief, one of two non-Americans who made it to Fortune magazine’s 12 Great Entrepreneurs of Our Time list in 2012. That year he also had to spend 4 nights in prison in Communist Eastern Europe. He then changed from a confused leftist to a liberal capitalist.
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Sudha Murthy
Rishi Sunak’s mother-in-law Sudha Murthy was the first female engineer of Tata Motors. She came into the limelight after making a complaint to the chairman of the Tata Group through a postcard. He is an eminent writer and social worker. He has built 60 thousand libraries and 16 thousand toilets. Narayana Murthy’s wife Sudha gave the example of strict upbringing for her children Akshata and Rohan without having a TV in their house. Like other school children, he insisted on sending his children to school in autorickshaws.
Akshata Murthy
Actually, when Rishi Sunak was studying MBA at Stanford University, he met Akshata, daughter of Infosys co-founder Narayan Murthy. After this, the two became friends and in the year 2009, they decided to get married. Rishi Sunak and Akshata have two daughters Krishna and Anushka.
Akshata has $700 million stake
Akshata Murthy has $700 million stake in Infosys Company. On the basis of this, she becomes richer than the late Queen Elizabeth. According to the Sunday Time Rich List in 2021, Elizabeth’s personal wealth has been estimated to be $46 million.
Akshara gets millions of dollars in dividends every year, but due to her non-domicile status in the UK, she avoids paying some of her income tax. So at the same time, after the uproar over tax in Britain, Rishi Sunak has said that his wife will now pay tax in UK on income from any corner of the world.
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