Johnson, the country's next prime minister, is expected to rely on his personal ties with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to create a "really special" relationship between the United Kingdom and India.
LONDON: Boris Johnson, the new British prime minister, has close relations with India. His wife, Marina Wheeler, whom he married in 1993, is half Indian.
Wheeler is the niece of the late editor and writer Khushwant Singh. Before announcing his separation last year, after 25 years of marriage, Johnson had traveled to India several times with Marina. They have four children together.
Johnson, who won the race in the Conservative Party to become the next prime minister of the country, must develop his personal ties with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to establish a "really special" relationship between the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom. India.
In his letter to the conservative members of the Indian diaspora, Johnson writes that during his meeting with Modi, he insisted that India and the United Kingdom are modern democracies and should work together to promote trade and commerce. prosperity. Johnson told Modi that the two countries should work together to face the challenges facing their country.
The former mayor of London and the former Foreign Secretary, 55, has already qualified as the son-in-law of India.
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Marina's mother, Dip Singh, who still lives, was married to Khushwant Singh's younger brother, Daljit Singh.
In a column in The Tribune, veteran journalist Khuswant Singh and his son Rahul Singh wrote that Johnson visited the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve with Marina and three of his children last year. At a family reunion, Rahul Singh met Johnson.
"Although I had seen him once in Mumbai a few years ago, it was the first time I could talk to him for a long time in a tête-à -tête, I was surprised that he knew so much about India. And his policy: in case of That he becomes the next British Prime Minister, I believe that these Indian ideas, mainly due to his 25 years of marriage to Marina, even if they are caustic, and personal visits to this country should predict better Indo-British relations.
However, it is known that Johnson made several mistakes, some of them related to India.
When he was Foreign Minister, Johnson was reprimanded by a Sikh gurdwara for talking about whiskey exports to India, even though alcohol is prohibited in the Sikh religion.
With a saffron turban on his head, Johnson said in the gurdwara of Bristol in 2017: "Every time we go to India, Mumbai or Delhi, we must bring" clinkie "in our luggage.
"We have to bring Johnnie Walker, we have to bring whiskey because, as you know, an import duty of 150% is imported to India on Scottish whiskey imports, so we have to do it tax free for Our family members could do it if there were a free trade agreement with India, there will be. "
Apparently, a devotee told Johnson angrily: "How dare you talk about alcohol in a Sikh temple?"
In November 2014, as Mayor of London, Johnson suggested that countries that "did not enjoy the British government" are now "less fortunate," in a discussion about Winston Churchill.
Johnson explained how he thought Churchill would have been "very proud" of Britain's "continuous legacy" in former colonies around the world.
"He would have felt very proud of Britain's legacy in these parts of the world, and I think in particular he would have been surprised by India, the greatest democracy in the world and by a stark contrast." with other less fortunate regions I had the advantage of British rule, if I can say that in the file ... why not? That's right, that's right, "he said.
Wheeler is the niece of the late editor and writer Khushwant Singh. Before announcing his separation last year, after 25 years of marriage, Johnson had traveled to India several times with Marina. They have four children together.
Johnson, who won the race in the Conservative Party to become the next prime minister of the country, must develop his personal ties with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to establish a "really special" relationship between the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom. India.
In his letter to the conservative members of the Indian diaspora, Johnson writes that during his meeting with Modi, he insisted that India and the United Kingdom are modern democracies and should work together to promote trade and commerce. prosperity. Johnson told Modi that the two countries should work together to face the challenges facing their country.
The former mayor of London and the former Foreign Secretary, 55, has already qualified as the son-in-law of India.
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Marina's mother, Dip Singh, who still lives, was married to Khushwant Singh's younger brother, Daljit Singh.
In a column in The Tribune, veteran journalist Khuswant Singh and his son Rahul Singh wrote that Johnson visited the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve with Marina and three of his children last year. At a family reunion, Rahul Singh met Johnson.
"Although I had seen him once in Mumbai a few years ago, it was the first time I could talk to him for a long time in a tête-à -tête, I was surprised that he knew so much about India. And his policy: in case of That he becomes the next British Prime Minister, I believe that these Indian ideas, mainly due to his 25 years of marriage to Marina, even if they are caustic, and personal visits to this country should predict better Indo-British relations.
However, it is known that Johnson made several mistakes, some of them related to India.
When he was Foreign Minister, Johnson was reprimanded by a Sikh gurdwara for talking about whiskey exports to India, even though alcohol is prohibited in the Sikh religion.
With a saffron turban on his head, Johnson said in the gurdwara of Bristol in 2017: "Every time we go to India, Mumbai or Delhi, we must bring" clinkie "in our luggage.
"We have to bring Johnnie Walker, we have to bring whiskey because, as you know, an import duty of 150% is imported to India on Scottish whiskey imports, so we have to do it tax free for Our family members could do it if there were a free trade agreement with India, there will be. "
Apparently, a devotee told Johnson angrily: "How dare you talk about alcohol in a Sikh temple?"
In November 2014, as Mayor of London, Johnson suggested that countries that "did not enjoy the British government" are now "less fortunate," in a discussion about Winston Churchill.
Johnson explained how he thought Churchill would have been "very proud" of Britain's "continuous legacy" in former colonies around the world.
"He would have felt very proud of Britain's legacy in these parts of the world, and I think in particular he would have been surprised by India, the greatest democracy in the world and by a stark contrast." with other less fortunate regions I had the advantage of British rule, if I can say that in the file ... why not? That's right, that's right, "he said.
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