Proud of him, says Narayana Murthy on Rishi Sunak PM appointment

"We are proud of him and wish him success," Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy said in his first comments on the elevation of his son-in-law Rishi Sunak as Britain's prime minister.

"Congratulations to Rishi. We are proud of him and we wish him success," Murthy said in first reaction emailed to PTI. "We are confident he will do his best for the people of the United Kingdom."

The son of a pharmacist mother and doctor father, Sunak was educated at one of England's most renowned schools, Winchester, and then Oxford. He spent three years at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and later gained an MBA from Stanford in California, where he met his wife Akshata Murthy, daughter of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy.


He married Akshata in 2009 and the couple has two daughters, Krishna and Anoushka.

Akshata, whose tax status on income from outside the UK had triggered a controversy, earned Rs 126.61 crore in dividend income in 2022 from her shareholding in Infosys.