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https://lnkd.in/g5Pd7TV9"With the 2024 national elections in India underway, people of Indian origin — often termed non-resident Indians — living outside India are influencing, spreading the word, and commenting on Indian politics.Nowhere are Indian diasporic politics more important than in the United States, home to the single largest Indian population outside of India.There are nearly 5 million Americans of Indian descent, most of whom are first-generation and second-generation Indian immigrants. Many occupy positions of prominence, including sitting Vice President Kamala Harris, whose mother was from India, as well as the current CEOs of Google and Microsoft. There are also many prominent diasporic Indians in major American newspapers and think tanks, who may be able to give voice to issues for a global audience in a way that the domestic Indian media cannot.Because most of these Indian Americans are recent immigrants, or the children of recent immigrants, many are still heavily invested in the goings-on of their ancestral land. Instant electronic communication and the wide availability of media, such as movies and music, make connecting with India in real-time easy.Demographic heft is not the only reason why the Indian American diaspora is an important element of Indian politics; the United States is also the world’s premier power and wields enormous influence worldwide, including in India. Voices supporting or criticizing India from the U.S. are much more amplified and part of the political discourse in India than voices in other countries."

https://lnkd.in/ggur8WHr"One of the few intriguing developments in the 2024 Republican primary is fresh evidence that Indian Americans—or at least a significant cohort of them—might join this longstanding trend. The two candidates who have made the biggest unexpected splash in the GOP primaries are the tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley. While Donald Trump has long dominated the race, Ramaswamy’s campaign enjoyed a brief surge in August, and as this issue went to press, Haley was still riding a better—and longer—uptick. Both of these candidates of Indian descent are only nominally Trump rivals; given his near lock on the nomination, they’re more plausibly auditioning to be members of a future Trump administration, perhaps as vice president, by showing that they can sell the MAGA platform in a stylish new form. In so doing, they are fully participating in the “rite of passage into American culture” that Morrison wrote about 30 years ago."

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https://lnkd.in/gpy23KcY"Topping the list of 800 major donors were community leaders like Swadesh Chatterjee, Ramesh Kapoor, Shekar N. Narasimhan, R. Rangaswami, Ajay Jain Bhutoria, Frank Islam, Neil Makhija and Bela Bajaria.“What hits an American citizen is primarily the economy, their pride and disappointment, and how their life will be run by Republicans or Democrats,” Madan said.Comprising nearly 1 per cent of all registered voters in the US and representing 16 per cent of Asian-American voters, Indian-Americans are considered to be key players in battleground states like Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Nevada.“In general, Indian-American voters, while supporting candidates for various positions, don’t articulate their concerns, they don’t candidly put their demands for the consideration of political representatives,” Ashok Vyas, a programme director with New Jersey-based ITV Gold channel, told IANS."