Indian-Americans -- Bobby Jindal and Nikky Haley -- are emerging as possible vice-presidential running mate of Mitt Romney, who is expected to bag the Republican Party's nomination for presidential polls.
Indian-American Bobby Jindal, the rising star of the Republicans, has asked his partymen to end their "navel gazing" over the 2008 election debacle and don the role as the opposition to President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.
Indian-American Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor from Louisiana, on Monday refrained from giving a definite answer on if he would make a bid for the 2012 United States presidential election.
Jindal, 44, was replaced by John Bel Edwards of the Democratic Party, who was won the elections last November.
Indian-American Bobby Jindal on Wednesday night announced his candidature for the 2016 US presidential elections, making him the 13th Republican aspirant to target the White House in this election cycle.
The names of two Indian-Americans -- Seema Verma and Bobby Jindal -- have emerged as possible candidates.
Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, which has one of the largest Indian-American population in a US state, has launched his bid for president, joining the already crowded presidential race of his Republican party.
"This is not my time, so I am suspending my campaign for president," Jindal said in a statement on Tuesday that surprised the American political pundits.
More than two dozen Indian-Americans are in electoral fray for the crucial US elections, but all eyes would be on three young leaders -- South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and Congressmen Ami Bera and Ro Khanna, who have made a mark in the country's politics.
Donald Trump virtually sealed his Republican nomination for the United States presidential polls on Tuesday night after he scored a major win at the Indiana primary and his nearest rival Texas Senator Ted Cruz bowed out of the race.
Republican Ted Cruz posted two crucial wins over front-runner Donald Trump who also triumphed in two states in Sunday's multi-state vote while in the Democratic camp Bernie Sanders clawed his way back into the presidential contest with two victories over Hillary Clinton.
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