{"id":49614,"date":"2022-10-24T23:13:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T14:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/24\/moment-of-pride-hindus-celebrating-diwali-hail-rishi-sunak-victory"},"modified":"2022-10-24T23:13:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T14:13:55","slug":"a-moment-of-pride-hindus-in-india-hail-rishi-sunaks-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49614","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A moment of pride\u2019: Hindus in India hail Rishi Sunak\u2019s victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indians react to news UK will have its first Hindu PM and consider how it will affect bilateral ties<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2022\/oct\/24\/uk-politics-live-rishi-sunak-penny-mordaunt-boris-johnson-withdrawal-nominations-deadline-tory-leadership-contest-race\">Rishi Sunak to be UK PM &#8211; live news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/politics\/2022\/oct\/24\/sunak-poised-become-uk-pm-mordaunt-johnson-withdraw\">Sunak wins Tory leadership &#8211; full report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Rishi Sunak prepares to become the UK\u2019s next prime minister at the start of the festival of Diwali \u2013 when Hindus pray to the goddess Lakshmi for prosperity and success \u2013 in India some Hindus celebrated the fact that someone sharing their religion had reached such high office in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have a Hindu inside 10 Downing Street is something astonishing and of great joy, and that too on Diwali,\u201d said Satish Verma, a supermarket owner in Delhi. \u201cAlthough he is British, it will make us Hindus proud that one of us made it so big.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/24\/moment-of-pride-hindus-celebrating-diwali-hail-rishi-sunak-victory\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indians react to news UK will have its first Hindu PM and consider how it will affect bilateral tiesRishi Sunak to be UK PM &#8211; live news updatesSunak wins Tory leadership &#8211; full reportAs Rishi Sunak prepares to become the UK\u2019s next prime minister at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[904,516,62,4,371,1158,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-hinduism","category-india","category-politics","category-religion","category-rishi-sunak","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49615,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49614\/revisions\/49615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}