Indian elected US state Governor

HOUSTON—Republican Rep. Bobby Jindal was elected governor of Louisiana on Saturday to become the first Indian-American to lead a U.S. state. With most of the precincts counted, Jindal, 36, had 54 percent of the vote to win without a runoff in Louisiana’s electoral system, where candidates of all parties run in a single primary. His nearest competitor, Democrat Walter Boasso, received just 18 percent of the vote. The Oxford-educated Jindal will replace Gov. Kathleen Blanco, a Democrat who did not run again after she was widely criticized for bungled recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Blanco narrowly defeated Jindal in the 2003 election. Jindal, whose first name is Piyush, is the son of immigrants from India and the first non-white Louisiana governor since Reconstruction in the 1870s. “My mom and dad came to this country in pursuit of the American Dream, and guess what happened?—Agencies