HOUSTON: Indian-American Piyush Bobby Jindal, a conservative Republican, recreated history as he was sworn in as the youngest governor of once racially segregated US state of Louisiana. He promised a "New Louisiana" that will be a magnet for the dreamers, the risk-takers, the adventurers, the leaders of America’s new economy, Jindal said immediately after being sworn in as Louisiana’s 55th governor.
Alongside with his wife Spriya and three little children, Piyush recited the oath of office, holding his hand to his family’s Bible, and became Louisiana’s first immigrant governor. Pascal Calogero, chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, administered the oath, making Jindal the first non-white governor in Louisiana and fourth Republican state chief executive since Reconstruction. He is the first governor from Baton Rouge since the 1920s.
He was born in Baton Rouge and raised in the Kenilworth neighborhood. Jindal said an overhaul of the state’s ethics laws and reduction in business taxes would make Louisiana a beacon for current residents and those who have left the state to seek opportunity elsewhere. "For reasons none of us can understand or fully appreciate, history has placed all of us — every living Louisianian, those within her borders and without — in a position previous generations could only envy," Jindal said.
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