Since the declaration of Rishi Sunak as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, social media and Indian media have been full of pro-Hindu and pro-Indian posts about the newly elected British Prime Minister.

Indians seem to be super happy that Sunak, who’s one of us, is finally the Prime Minister of the British who ruled the country for more than 200 years.

But the reality is very different.

Rishi Sunak has often mentioned having “Indian Roots,” but his roots date back to a pre-partition era when there was no Pakistan, it was one whole country, an undivided India- not the India of Today.

Just like the Indian Media, Pakistani Media is also showcasing Sunak as having roots in Pakistan, and flashing headlines as a “Pakistani origin Hindu British Prime Minister.”

Sunak's family is Punjabi Khatri, with roots in Gujranwala, north of Lahore, in present-day Pakistan. According to experts who know the history of the family, Sunak’s grandfather, Ramdas Sunak, migrated to Nairobi, Kenya, in 1935, where he took up a job as a clerk. Ramdas’s wife — Sunak’s grandmother — was also from Gujranwala, and she travelled to Kenya in 1937.

His mother was born in Tanzania and his father was born in Kenya.

Sunak was born in Southampton, England, in 1980, and was educated at Winchester College, a private boarding school, and the University of Oxford. He’s a British-born third-generation son of Indian immigrants.

Does that really make him an Indian?

However, Sunak will be the first Prime Minister of Britain who is a practicing Hindu. He has also been doing gau puja while campaigning and is the first British Prime Minister of colour.