‘Indian Americans need more Bobby Jindals’

Jindal,the Governor of Louisiana,is the first Indian American to have been elected as the Governor of a US State. A Democrat,Goyal is one of the youngest legislator in the Kansas State Assembly.

“Time has come for us to enter active politics and public service to serve not only 1.2 million Indian Americans but mainstream Americans as well,” Goyal said.

“Indians by nature are good administrators and can run for office and get elected easily. This is not all about winning but governing,” he said to loud applause from AAPI members.

“We need courage to run for public office and should remove the hesitation from our minds whether the public will accept us. We are not inferior to others either in values or hard work and the country needs more elected officials and second generation Indian Americans can easily sail through,” Goyal said.

“I am a lawyer but my dad is a cardiologist and my mom is the regional director of AAPI. We imbibe the best in both the systems and that’s the success of Indian-American physicians in this country,” Goyal said,adding there should be more representations and more participation in election process.

Last year’s presidential election was an eye opener to Indians as large number of youngsters worked for Barack Obama and some of them were rewarded adequately in the administration,he said.

“We have closer to 10 Indian-Americans in the White House which was unprecedented,” he said.