Rishi Sunak's mother-in-law reveals UK border muddle
Rishi’s mother-in-law gives her address as Number 10! Now the fabulous Mrs Murty – who claims she is the reason for the PM’s success – pops up on an Indian chat show to reveal her delight at telling border staff she lives at Downing Street
Rishi Sunak’s Indian mother-in-law has revealed border staff thought she was pranking them about staying in Downing Street during a visit to the UK.
Sudha Murty, wife of billionaire Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy, said she wrote down the historic address on a form.
She told the Kapil Sharma chat show in India that the border guard looked at her and said: ‘Are you joking?’
‘I told him, “no, I’m telling you the truth”,’ Ms Murty – mother of the PM’s wife Akshata – continued.
‘No one believes that I, a 72-year-old simple lady, can be the mother-in-law of the Prime Minister.’
Ms Murty hit the headlines last month when she credited her daughter with steering Mr Sunak into No10.
Sudha Murty, wife of billionaire Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy and mother of the PM’s wife Akshata, appeared on the Kapil Sharma chat show in India
Ms Murty said that a border guard asked if she was joking when she wrote down Downing Street – where her daughter Akshata lives with Rishi Sunak – as her temporary address
The philanthropist and author proclaimed that she was ‘able to succeed in making my husband a businessman’.
She added with great pride: ‘But my daughter has made her husband Prime Minister of the UK.’
Ms Murty also disclosed that she had persuaded Mr Sunak to fast every Thursday in honour of a Hindu guru the family worship.
Akshata has praised her mother for teaching her the values of ‘hard work, humility and selflessness’.
Ms Murty was the only female student at an engineering college she studied at in the late 1960s in the state of Karnataka and was admitted on the condition that she only ever wore a sari, never spoke to male students and did not visit the canteen.
In 1974, she became the first female engineer to be hired by the TATA group, India’s leading auto manufacturer and worked in Pune, south India, after famously writing to the firm’s boss to complain about the fact that they did not hire females.
She gave up a scholarship to study in the US so that she could be a ‘champion’ for Indian women in the engineering industry.
After meeting her husband, she helped him set up consulting and IT services firm Infosys in 1981.
It is now worth around £50billion, with Akshata’s stake valued at hundreds of millions of pounds.
The wider family are still close despite the Sunaks living in the UK
Sudha was raised in a modest middle-class home and was born in August 1950 in Shiggaon, Karnataka, south India
Sudha is credited as a driving force behind her husband’s business empire.
She once said in an interview: ‘We always cared for the family, children, grandchildren and took our work seriously. We respect, we give space to each other. We advise each other, but we do not interfere in each other.’
Despite their huge wealth, the couple live in a relatively modest home in a suburb of Bengaluru and shun A list parties.
Sudha is a life-long vegetarian, along with her husband, who dresses in simple saris and is deeply religious.
In a 2018 interview, Sudha revealed there was no television in the family home and evenings were spent with the whole family ‘doing something productive.’
She also claimed that she had adopted a no shopping policy and had not bought a new sari for over 20 years.
Akshata on the other hand is known for her love of expensive designer clothes.
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