UK’s Asian Rich List: Hinduja family retains top spot, British Prime Minister Sunak, his wife debuts

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty have made their debut on the UK’sAsian rich list 2022′ led by the Hinduja family. Sunak and his wife whose father NR Narayana Murthy was a co-founder of the Indian IT major infosysare 17th on the list, with an estimated net worth of 790 million pounds.



The combined wealth of this year’s list is £113.2 billion, an increase of £13.5 billion from last year.

The list is headed by the Hinduja family for the eighth consecutive time with an estimated net worth of £30.5bn, up £3bn from last year.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan presented a copy of the Asian Rich List 2022 to Ritu Chhabria, daughter of Gopichand Hinduja, co-chair of the Hinduja group at the 24th Annual Asian Business Awards at the Westminster Park Plaza hotel on Wednesday night.

Hinduja Group is an Indian transnational conglomerate. The group is present in eleven sectors.

I address the gathering, Chief Guest Oliver DowdenMP, Chancellor of Dutchy van Lancaster, said: “every year we see the British Asian Community continue to grow, which is no surprise to me personally.”

“Throughout my life I have seen firsthand the hard work, determination and entrepreneurship of the British Asian community. And of course in my last job I have a British Asian boss, my very good friend Mr Rishi Sunak, the The United Kingdom’s first-ever Anglo-Asian prime minister,” Dowden said.

Sunak made an impressive comeback to become the first British Prime Minister of Indian descent on 25 October, seven weeks after losing the race for 10 Downing Street to Liz Truss.

The 42-year-old investment banker turned politician is the youngest British prime minister in 210 years and also the UK’s first Hindu prime minister.

“I want to thank you. British Asian business is widely recognized as one of the most successful entrepreneurial groups ever. It is a remarkable story of building businesses, creating jobs and accumulating wealth. And as outlined in the Asian This year’s Rich List, Asian entrepreneurs have enriched Britain in all aspects of our national life,” said Dowden.

This year’s Asian Rich list includes 16 billionaires from the UK, one more than last year, with most billionaires seeing their wealth increase or remain the same as last year.

Sri Prakash Lohia and his family have seen the biggest increase in wealth on this year’s list, rising from £4 billion to £8.8 billion.

Lakshmi Mittal and his son Aditya (£12.8 billion) and Prakash Lohia and family (£8.8 billion) and Nirmal Sethia (£6.5 billion) are other wealthiest on the list.

Shailesh R Solanki, the executive editor of the Asian Marketing Group (AMG) and the host of the event, said: “The Asian Rich list has been carefully curated by a team of experts and it is the definitive guide to Asian wealth in the UK. Britain.”

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