Indian-American running for Senate seat in Nevada
Thursday, 12/05/2016
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Washington: An Indian-American public accountant is running for a Senate seat in the US state of Nevada by employing a non-conventional anti-corruption campaign which promises to get “dirty money” out of politics. Bobby Mahindra is pinning his hope on the grass-roots campaign he built to replace Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, 76, who has held the position uninterrupted since 1987. Mahindra, 42, claimed he had “achieved the real front runner status” by building a grass-roots campaign on the Facebook and, unlike other candidates, has not taken a single penny from corrupt sources.
“I am the most liked politician (on Facebook) in the State of Nevada. One of my main goal is to help get dirty money out of politics,” Mahindra said. “I always wanted to be able to give back to the Community through service to country, and I knew that I would run for office one day; however, I never expected it to be right now! I looked at the candidates that were offered on the political landscape, and I didn’t feel that any candidate offered what I wanted,” Mahindra said.
Mahindra, whose father Narendra Lal Mahindra is from Gwalior and mother Sunita Mahindra from Punjab, is pitted against three other candidates including the front-runner Catnerine Cortez Masto, the former Attorney General of Nevada, in the Democratic primary seat vacated Reid.
