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Nine Indian-Americans win US election
Nine Indian-Americans win US election, At 23, Indian-American law student Niraj Antani, a Republican, will be one of America\'s youngest lawmakers after being elected to the state House in Ohio in the mid-term elections.
Youngest Senator at 23 is an Indian
Washington: At 23, Indian-American law student Niraj Antani, a Republican, will be one of America's youngest lawmakers after being elected to the state House in Ohio in the mid-term elections.
He defeated 62-year-old Patrick Morris of the Democratic Party in Ohio's 42nd House District.
Antani graduated from Ohio State University in spring last year with a bachelor's degree in political science.
He is the second Indian American to serve in the Ohio House after Jay Goyal who represented the 73rd District for three terms from 2006 to 2012. Antani's parents came to the US in 1987 and settled in Washington Township. Later, they moved to Miami. His father Jaimini died in 2010.
Indian-Americans had a mixed outing in the US mid-term elections with Republican Nikki Haley and Democrat Kamala Harris re-elected as South Carolina's governor and California's attorney general, respectively. In all 9 Indian-Americans won the elections.
Other Indian-American to win for Senate were Janak Joshi, Prasad Srinivasan, Sam Singh, Aruna Miller, Kumar Barve, Pramila Jayapal and Ami Bera.
But Republican Neel Thushar Kashkari was routed by California's Democratic Governor Jerry Brown in Tuesday's poll to win a historic fourth term, while Ami Bera, only the third Indian-American in the US Congress, was in a dead heat race for re-election from northern California.
In the House race for Silicon valley, Democrat Ro Khanna, a former Obama administration Commerce Department official, was still trailing fellow Democrat seven term veteran incumbent Mike Honda. But the gap was narrowing.
Haley, born Nimrata 'Nikki' Randhawa, the 42-year-old daughter of Sikh immigrants from India, who became the first minority and first woman governor of South Carolina four years ago, handily beat Democratic state Senator Vincent Sheheen to win a second term. So did Kamala Harris, California's first female Indian-American and African-American Attorney General against little-known Republican challenger Ronald Gold winning 55 percent of votes cast with 72 percent of precincts reporting.
"Governor Nikki Haley has done an extraordinary job for South Carolina. Her leadership is making the difference," Republican Governors Association chairman Chris Christie said in a statement following her re-election victory.
"With Haley at the helm for four more years, South Carolina is sure to experience continued growth and success. No one fights harder for South Carolina than Governor Haley, and because of her, it's going to be another great four years," the New Jersey governor said.
