After his holiday in California, Rishi Sunak dropped into the University of Cambridge yesterday, not, in his words, “as the prime minister, but as a Hindu”. He was visiting Morari Bapu, below, an Indian spiritual leader, during the nine-day Ram Katha recital he is currently conducting. At the event in Jesus College, Sunak received religious gifts and spoke about the importance of faith in his day-to-day life. “I am proud that a golden Ganesh sits gleefully on my desk at 10 Downing Street,” he said, adding, “faith gives me courage, strength and resilience to do the best that I can for our country.” He said he has been “overwhelmed by the love and support of the British people.”
But some Cambridge dons were not very supportive. Nicholas Guyatt, a history professor at the college where the event took place, took to Twitter to express his anger. “Fellows/students were given no notice that Rishi Sunak was going to appear,” he said. “The event was presented to us as wholly religious and apolitical; had we known he was coming, many of us would have protested the endless shameful actions of his wretched government.”
