Priyanca Radhakrishnan, 41, has been a member of the Labour Party since 2006.
On Monday, when India-born Priyanca Radhakrishnan was appointed as a Minister in the New Zealand Cabinet led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, it was a “proud moment” for her father R Radhakrishnan, an IIT-Kanpur alumnus hailing from North Paravur in Kerala’s Ernakulam district.
But it was hardly a surprise.
For years now, Radhakrishnan had been nudging his daughter towards politics in New Zealand where she had gone to pursue her higher studies from Singapore. In 2017, she went on to become an MP in Arden’s Labour Party.
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