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New British PM Boris Johnson has close Indian connection: Hindustan Times
NEW DELHI, July 25, 2019 (BSS) – The new British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson has a close Indian connection as his estranged wife Marina Wheeler is
half Indian.
Wheeler, whom he married in 1993, is the niece of late editor and writer
Khushwant Singh, according to a report released by the Hindustan Times today.
The report says that Johnson had travelled several times to India with
Marina before they announced their separation last year after 25 years of
marriage. They have four children together.
The former mayor of London and former foreign secretary, Johnson (55), has
earlier referred to himself as the son-in-law of India. Marina’s mother, Dip
Singh, who is still alive, was married to Khushwant Singh’s youngest brother
Daljit Singh.
In a column for an English daily, veteran journalist and Khuswant Singh’s
son Rahul Singh wrote that Johnson visited the Ranthambore tiger reserve
along with Marina and three of their children last year, the report said.
During a family get-together, Rahul Singh got to meet Johnson, it added.
“Though I met him once before in Mumbai some years earlier, this was the
first time I got a chance to talk to him one-to-one, at some length. I was
surprised that he knew so much about India and its politics,” the paper
reported quoting Rahul Singh.
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