With Rishi Sunak becoming the Prime Minister of UK, the Pandey family of Sindri has suddenly came in the news. The reason is young lad — Prajwal Pandey, a core team member of Sunak’s team and first generation immigrant to the UK has his roots in there. Pandey’s parents Rajesh and Manisha Pandey are from Sindri. His grandfather Bagish Dutt Pandey worked in PDIL Sindri and still lives there with his family. Rajesh Pandey is his eldest son.
Amit Pandey, uncle of Prajwal, while talking to media persons informed that Prajwal was invited to join Rishi Sunak’s core campaign team when Rishi stood for UK Prime Ministerial contest in August 2022. Prajwal worked with many senior policy advisers to Rishi Sunak and regularly communicated with MPs, Ministers and Rishi himself. Prajwal worked in the communications and outreach division of the core team, said Amit, a technocrat working in Bangalore, but is now in Sindri working from home. Prajwal’s father works in the defence department of Britain and his mother is a school teacher, said Amit.
Giving details of Prajwal’s achievements Amit said, he was elected member of UK Youth Parliament with record vote in March 2019 and gave speech in British parliament as a member of youth parliament in November 2019 when he was just16 years old.
Prajwal joined conservative party in 2019, when he was 16 years old. He was elected vice chairman of “Chelmsford Youth Strategy Group” in June 2019. Talking to media persons over phone his father Rajesh Pandey said, Prajwal studied in a prestigious King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, Essex. He was a bright student and did extremely well in economics and maths.
He also is the winner of Harvard International Economics Essay Contest for the year 2021.
He was also elected co-chairman of Essex Climate Action Commission March 2020 at the age of 17 and there got an opportunity to work with many senior leaders like Lord Randall and UN Chief Scientists, peers of House of Lords in forming climate policy.