Indian Immigrant's Son Now Ireland's Prime Minister
Indo-Irish relations are the bilateral ties between India and Ireland. The two countries had a similar fight against a common adversary as former part of British Empire. Many of the provisions of Constitution of India were taken from their Irish counterpart. Indo-Irish relations were also strengthened by the great personalities such as Rabindra Nath Tagore, Jawahar Lal Nehru, W B Yeats, Sister Nivedita, Annie Besant, James Joyce.
Today the relation between India and Ireland has reached to the highest level after son of an Indian immigrant becoming Prime Minister of Ireland.
Governing Fine Gael party of Ireland has elected Leo Varadkar as its new leader, choosing the gay, 38 year old son of an Indian immigrant to succeed Enda Kenny as Prime Minister. Leo was born on 18th January 1979 in Castleknock, Republic of Ireland
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| Leo Varadkar Image Courtesy : irishtimes.com |
This is a striking sign of rapid social change of the country. Leo will become the once staunchly Catholic country's first openly gay premier, the youngest person ever to hold the office and also the first from an ethnic minority background.
| Image courtesy:cnn.com |
Leo Varadkar's father Ashok, like his son, is a doctor and was born in Mumbai. He met his wife Miriam, an Irish nurse, in England in the 1970s before moving to Ireland where Varadkar was born. Dr Ashok hails from a family of nine siblings native to Varad region near Malwan along the Konkan coast India.
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