Boris performs puja at UK temple, vows to partner with Modi to build ‘new India’

Sporting a ‘tilak’, Johnson had been briefed by a senior Hindu monk at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in London, known as Neasden Temple, that whoever prays before the deity achieves whatever they wish for. “I’m not telling you what I wished for,” he said as Symonds, dressed in a gold and pink saree, giggled.