Rishi Sunak

Reacting to son-in-law Sunak's victory, Murthy on Tuesday said that "he was proud of him and wished him success". "Congratulations to Rishi. We are confident that he will do his best for the people of United Kingdom," he said. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai expressed his happiness over Rishi Sunak's elevation.

Rishi Sunak, whose sudden resignation set in motion the circumstances that forced an intransigent Johnson to finally bow out earlier this year, was initially leading in the race to be his successor. The race had a ethnically diverse list of candidates -- British Pakistani ministers Sajid Javid and Rehman Chishti, Sunak's Iraqi Kurd-born successor Nadhim Zahawi, Attorney General Suella Braverman, whose family's roots are in Goa, and Nigerian-origin former minister Kemi Badenoch.

Bengaluru, India's Silicon Valley, was overjoyed after Rishi Sunak, the son-in-law of tech giant Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murthy, made it to the post of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on Monday.