Washington, DC: Several Indian Americans have won the contests for state houses and senates. Former Michigan state representative and House Democratic leader Sam Singh, has now become state senator. Democrat state representative Padma Kuppa has also won the contest for the state senate in Michigan.
Washington state senator Manka Dhingra has been re-elected. So has New York state senator Jeremy Cooney, who was adopted from an orphanage in Kolkata and raised by a single mother. He made history in 2020 as the first Asian American elected to state office from upstate New York.
Priya Sundareshan, a professor at the University of Arizona, has been elected state senator in Arizona.
Other Indian Americans who won as state house representatives include Anita Somani (Democrat), a doctor, in Ohio; Arvind Venkat (Democrat), an emergency room doctor, for the Pennsylvania house of representatives and Vandana Slatter as state representative from Washington state.
Megan Srinivas, an Indi an American infectious diseases physician and a Democratic candidate, has won from Iowa’s house district 30. Ranjeev Puri is Michigan state representative. Delhi-born Om Duggal (Democratic Party), a hotelier, has won election to the Georgia house of representatives; Indian American Kevin Olickal, who has worked as executive director of the Indo-American Democratic Organization, has won the contest for the Illinois state legislature. Kumar P Barve, a Democrat and member of the Maryland house of delegates, who was the first Indian American to be elected to a state legislature in the United States, has also been re-elected. However, Indian American Sandeep Srivastava lost from Texas’s third Congressional district to Keith Self, the former Colin County judge. Rishi Bagga (Democrat), an attorney and hotelier, has lost to Fred Hawkins for state representative of Florida. (Source: The Asian Era)
