Indian-Americans in race for US Congress’s midterm elections

Many outstanding Indian-American politicians put their hat within the ring for elections to the US House of Representatives because the nation went for its midterm polls on November 8.

The midterm elections will assist sign the route of future politics within the United States as it’s going to resolve which occasion will management the US Congress.

As the election outcomes have began pouring in, let’s check out the contesting Indian American candidates:

Ami Bera- A member of the Democratic Party, Ami Bera has been representing California’s seventh congressional district within the US House of Representatives since 2013. He is a first-generation American born and raised in California.

Bera is at the moment a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the place he serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation.

Raja Krishnamoorthi – Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi gained the re-election to US House in Illinois’ eighth Congressional District, which incorporates Chicago’s west and northwest suburbs. He earned a bachelor’s diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University, and obtained his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

Krishnamoorthi lives together with his spouse and two sons and a daughter in Schaumburg.

Ro Khanna – A Democrat, Ro Khanna gained re-election to US House in California’s seventeenth Congressional District. He can be serving a 4th consecutive time period.

Khanna is the Deputy Whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus; serves as an Assistant Whip for the Democratic Caucus and is the Democratic Vice Chair of the House Caucus on India and Indian Americans.

Pramila Jayapal – Democrat Pramila Jayapal has gained the re-election to US House in Washington’s seventh Congressional District.

Jayapal was in information lately as a letter she had written to the President to pursue extra diplomacy in Russia Ukraine war- a transfer that appeared to undercut her occasion’s resolute help for Ukraine- grew to become public. Jayapal serves because the chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Shri Thanedar – Entrepreneur and businessman Shri Thanedar has been elected from the Michigan’s thirteenth Congressional District in Detroit. He is a Democrat.

He immigrated to the United States in 1979 from Belgaum, India. Thanedar obtained his PhD in polymer chemistry from the University of Akron (1982) after receiving a Masters Degree on the University of Bombay (1977).

Aruna Miller – The civil engineer-turned-politician made historical past as she grew to become the primary immigrant to carry the workplace of Lieutenant Governor in Maryland. She can also be the primary Asian American elected statewide.

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We want you. We want your hope, we want your tales, we want your partnership — and I can promise you this, we’re solely simply getting began.

— Aruna Miller (@arunamiller) November 9, 2022

“Ever since I came to this country in 1972, I’ve never stopped being excited for the promise of America. I will never stop fighting to make sure that promise is available to everyone,” she wrote on Twitter.

Megan Srinivas – Democrat Megan Srinivas defeated Republican Jerry Cheevers as she claimed victory for the redrawn Iowa House District 30, which covers south Des Moines in line with a report by Des Moines Register newspaper.

An Infectious Disease Physician, Clinical Instructor, she has earned levels from the University of Iowa, Harvard School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Medical School and the University of North Carolina.