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2 Indian-Americans Omar Vaid And Mohan Radhakrishnan Vying For Congress From Same New York Seat

Darpan News Desk IANS, 25 Jan, 2018 12:13 PM
    Two Indian-Americans from the Democratic party have thrown their hats in the ring for the US House of Representatives from the same Congressional seat in New York.
     
     
    Omar Vaid and Mohan Radhakrishnan have announced to fight out the Democratic primary to earn the party’s nomination for the November mid-term general elections to defeat the Republican incumbent Congressman Don Donavan in New York’s 11th Congressional District.
     
     
    While New York is a heavily Democratic leaning State, the 11th Congressional District of late has emerged as a Republican stronghold.
     
     
    US President Donald Trump had won the seat in 2016.
     
     
    Both Vaid and Mohan seek to unseat Donavan this time.
     
     
    But before that they need to win the Democratic party primary for which currently more than half a dozen candidates are in the race.
     
     
    Son of two immigrant parents of Gujarati-Indian heritage, Vaid grew up as a Muslim in Illinois and Florida, according to his campaign website.
     
     
    As a member of the Democratic Party, he believes diversity is an asset and that all voices must be included, it says.
     
     
    Vaid says that Trump has put the country on a path towards an “isolationist” foreign policy.
     
     
    He is running on the platform of free-market platform, climate change and improving the transportation system instead of border wall.
     
     
    A labour union leader, Mohan is a 27-year resident of Staten Island, New York and an active member of the Community Board 1 of Staten Island.
     
     
    An eminent community leader, he is a member of the Staten Island Hindu Temple Board.
     
     
    “Our democracy and country is going through a difficult time under the current administration and we should not let it go too far,” he said.
     
     
    Currently there are four Indian-Americans in the US House of Representatives.
     
     
     
     
     
    In addition to Ami Bera from California who is serving his third term, three others--Ro Khanna from California, Raja Krishnamoorthi from Illinois and Pramila Jayapal from Washington--were elected for the first term in 2016.
     
     
    They have informally formed the Samosa Caucus. All of them are from the same Democratic Party.
     
     
    Senator Kamala Harris from California is of mixed Indian and American heritage.
     
     
    Quite a significant number of Indian-Americans are running for US Congress from various parts of the country.
     
     
    Krishnamoorthi is facing two Indian-Americans–Vandana Jhingan and Jitender Digankar–from the Republican party in his re-election bid.
     
     
    Among other Indian-Americans running for Congress are Aruna Miller from Maryland; Anita Malik and Hiral Tipirneni from Arizona; Chintan Desai from Arkansas; Sapan Shah from Illinois, Harry Arora from Connecticut, Abhijit Das from Massachusetts, Suraj Patel from New York, Sri Preston Kulkarni from Texas, Saira Rao from Colorado; Deep Saran from Virginia and Peter Jacob from New Jersey. 

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