Pureval’s Sikh grandfather was a brigadier in the Indian army. His parents immigrated to Ohio in the US in 1979. While growing up, Pureval used to visit his maternal family in Kathmandu and paternal home in Delhi’s Vasant Vihar neighbourhood.
Today, he is the first South Asian to be elected mayor of a major mid-western city as Pureval governs Cincinnati in Ohio. A rising star in the Democratic Party, he is also on the national advisory board to re-elect Joe Biden for president.
Ranjeev Puri’s parents moved to Wisconsin and helped set up the Oak Creek gurudwara, the first Sikh place of worship in the state. Puri worked with Pureval when both worked in student government when they went to Ohio State University two decades ago and then joined the team of the Barack Obama campaign in 2012.
Stung by a mass shooting that killed six people in the gurudwara his parents had nurtured and prodded on by Obama to enter electoral politics, Puri, whose family had moved to Michigan, spent almost a decade doing grassroots work for the Democrats in Michigan among the South Asian community and campaigning against gun violence.
Today, he is the majority whip in the Michigan state House, determining his how party’s lawmakers vote at a time when Democrats, after 40 years, have control over the trifecta of the House, the Senate and the governor’s office.
Amish Shah, who was born and raised in Chicago, was a physician who worked for the National Football League and helped all 32 teams standardise emergency care procedures. In 2012, NFL suggested he do a one-year sport medicine fellowship in Arizona. Jain agreed, and loved the state so much that he not only decided to stay on there but enter electoral politics. A member of the House in Arizona from central Phoenix, Shah now plans to contest for the US House of Representatives in the next election cycle.
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