Rishi Sunak is the first Hindu Prime of the United Kingdom and his Indian roots but does that mean that the India-UK relations will be better now?

Well, soon after Sunak took over as the British Prime Minister, British Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, called up his counterpart in New Delhi, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, and discussed “bilateral relations.”

On the day of Diwali, Sunak won the race to become the Conservation Party leader and the new prime minister of UK. He entered  10 Downing Street lighting up diyas outside the UK Parliament after he won the race.

The youngest British Prime Minister in 210 years, Sunak’s vision for India-U.K. bilateral ties have gone beyond the opportunity for the U.K. to sell things in India, wanting Britain to also "learn from India".

“The U.K. doesn’t have a monopoly on opportunity. There’s an enormous amount of opportunity in India, we also want to make sure that if this living bridge is going to be a real thing, we have got to make it easier for people in the U.K. to go to India, to study at world-class institutions to go work in all these amazing start-ups,” Mr. Sunak said recently when he was Chancellor.

"I want to make sure that it’s easy for our students to also travel to India and learn, that it’s also easy for our companies and Indian companies to work together because it’s not just a one-way relationship, it’s a two-way relationship, and that’s the type of change I want to bring to that relationship,” the former investment banker-turned-politician had said, while outlining his vision for India-U.K. ties.