“So I am reaching out not only to Indians, but also to Asians, to African-Americans, to Latinos and saying that come into our party, we welcome you here. We want you to be successful. We want your kids to get good education. I feel that my Indian background is going to be a big education, but would also help me reach out to other ethnicity bring them with me,” he said when asked about his Indian heritage.
If elected, he would be the third Indian-American governor after Louisiana's Bobby Jindal and South Carolina's Nikki Haley.
Incidentally all the three are Republicans.
Keshkari alleged that the economic agenda of the Obama administration is not very supportive of small businesses.
Describing India as very powerful growth engine, he said India need to pursue a very aggressive economic reform to allow entrepreneurs to prosper.
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