Indian cricket legend Kapil Dev has come out in help of Indian American Puneet Ahluwalia, who’s within the race for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. The Republican get together is slated to select its nominee for the Lieutenant Governor at a hybrid conference on May 8.
Wishing all of the luck, Kapil Dev mentioned in a video posted on Facebook. I hope, I can come and allow you to, he mentioned within the video. A profitable businessman, Ahluwalia, if elected, could be the primary Indian American to be elected to a excessive place within the state of Virginia.
Thank you to my pal Kapil Dev, one of many biggest cricket gamers ever, for these variety phrases of help, Ahluwalia, 55, mentioned. Delhi-born Ahluwalia migrated to the US in 1990. His spouse Nadia is initially from Afghanistan.
The transient video of help from Kapil Dev is predicted to make stronger Ahluwalia’s marketing campaign in Virginia, which over the previous one decade has seen a fast enlargement of Indian Americans, and in addition these from different cricket-loving South Asian international locations together with Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, particularly in townships across the Washington DC space. Virginia, notably, additionally has quite a few native cricket golf equipment.
In 2010, Virginia ranked seventh when it comes to variety of Indian Americans in a US state. In 2019, in response to University of Virginia estimates, there have been greater than half 1,000,000 Asian Americans within the state.
