Hamilton (New Zealand), July 25,2019:
By Gurbir Singh:
The colourful British politician, Boris Johnson who called himself as the ‘son-of India’ is the first British PM ever to have strong connection to Sikhs in India.
Simon Bridges, NZ’s National leader who yesterday described this ‘unconventional’ PM as having ‘buffoon-like quality’, is married to Marina Wheeler, a half-Sikh and mother of their four children.
Marina Wheeler, 55, is daughter of BBC correspondent, Sir Charles Wheeler and his second wife, Dip Singh (an Indian Sikh) who married in Delhi in 1961.
Dip Singh who is still alive, is the niece of late Indian editor and legendary writer, Khushwant Singh,and grand-daughter of Sir Sobha Singh who built Lutyens’s Delhi.
According to Rahul Singh, a veteran journalist and Khushwant Singh’s son, Marina was married to his father’s youngest brother, Daljit Singh who was also a national junior tennis champion.
“The marriage did not last long and they had no children. Then, Dip met and fell in love with the distinguished BBC correspondent in New Delhi, Sir Charles Wheeler. They had two daughters, Marina and Shirin,” wrote Rahul Singh in The Tribune recently.
Marina married Boris Johnson in 1993, but last year they announced their separation after 25 years of marriage.
In his open letter addressed to the Indian diaspora in Britain recently, Boris Johnson described himself as the 'son-in-law' of India by virtue of his...
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