Washington, Feb. 12 : Republicans have zeroed into Indian American Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal to give their official response to President Obama''s February 24 address to a joint session of Congress.
"Governor Jindal embodies what I have long said: the Republican Party must not be simply the party of ''opposition,'' but the party of better solutions," the Washington Times quoted House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (Ohio Republican) as saying while announcing the party's decision.
Washington, Jan24 : Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal will headline the National Republican Congressional Committee's March fundraising dinner - a move sure to raise speculation that Jindal is trying to raise his national profile.
Jindal, a rising star in the Republican Party and a potential 2012 White House contender, will take the speaking slot that in years past belonged to former President George W Bush, Politico. com reported.
Washington, Nov. 25 : Louisiana’s 37-year-old governor Bobby Jindal is the rising star of the Republican Party, an unnamed senator of the party has said.
In an interview with the website Politico. com, the GOP senator also threw up the names of Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Tim Pawlenty and Charlie Crist.
He rather forlornly said: “I don’t think we have learned much from the election in terms of what people want to see. We have the same gridlock.”
“We need someone who speaks from the center,” he said, adding that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was not the voice of the party.
New York, Nov. 17: Louisiana's Indian American Governor Bobby Jindal is of the view that there is something wrong with his Republican Party, and that it needs to do three things to get back on track.
New York, Nov. 17: Louisiana’s Indian American Governor Bobby Jindal is of the view that there is something wrong with his Republican Party, and that it needs to do three things to get back on track.