Indian-American Bobby Jindal Re-elected as the Governor of Louisiana

Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, won re-election on 22 October 2011.  He is a member of the Republican Party. Jindal won 66% of the vote with his nearest challenger, Tara Hollis of the Democratic party, got 18%. On 20 October, 2007, Jindal was elected governor of Louisiana for the first time.

Bobby Jindal is the first Indian-American to occupy the post of a governor.  His real name was Piyush Jindal. He started calling himself Bobby from an early age and converted from Hinduism to Catholicism as a teenager. He was born in Baton Rouge, the capital of the southern state of Louisiana, to Indian parents who had immigrated from the Punjab.  He is 37 years old.

Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge.