Piyush Jindal was born on June 10, 1971 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in an Indian Punjabi American Hindu family of the Agarwal Bania caste. Jindal graduated from Brown University in 1992 at the age of 20, with honors in two majors, biology and public policy. In 1995, Jindal was appointed secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. In 1999, he was appointed president of the University of Louisiana System. At 28, Jindal became the youngest person to hold the position. He was re-elected in 2011 in a landslide, winning more than 65 percent of the vote. In 2012, he ran for and won the Republican presidential nomination for a second time. In 2014, he announced that he would not be
About Bobby Jindal in brief
Piyush Jindal was born on June 10, 1971 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in an Indian Punjabi American Hindu family of the Agarwal Bania caste. His father is a civil engineer and graduate of Guru Nanak Dev University and Punjab University. His mother is a graduate of Rajasthan University and worked in nuclear physics at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh. Both his parents were lecturers at an Indian engineering college. Jindal graduated from Brown University in 1992 at the age of 20, with honors in two majors, biology and public policy. He is the first Indian American governor, and the only one until Nikki Haley was elected Governor of South Carolina in 2010. On June 24, 2015, Jindal announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. He suspended his campaign in November 2015, subsequently announcing his support for Marco Rubio. He finished his term as governor in January 2016. Jindal previously served as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives and Chairman of the Republican Governors Association. In 1995, Jindal was appointed secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. In 1999, he was appointed president of the University of Louisiana System. At 28, Jindal became the youngest person to hold the position. In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Jindal as principal adviser to U.S. Secretary of health and Human Services. He was re-elected in 2011 in a landslide, winning more than 65 percent of the vote.
Jindal turned down an offer to study for a D. Phil. in politics. He then interned in the office of Rep. Jim McCrery of Louisiana, where he spent two weeks studying Medicare to compile an extensive report on possible solutions to Medicare’s financial problems, which he presented to Gov. Mike Foster. In 1996, Foster called Jindal a “genius” who had a great deal of knowledge of state budgeting. During his tenure, Louisiana’s Medicaid program went from a deficit of USD 400 million into three years of surpluses totaling USD 220 million. Under Jindal’s term, Louisiana rose to third place in nationally in child healthcare. He applied to and was accepted by both Harvard Medical School and Yale Law School, but studied as a Rhodes Scholar where he received an MLitt in political science with an emphasis in health policy from New College, Oxford in 1994. In 1998, Jindal appointed executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, a 17-member panel charged with recommending changes to the Medicare program. In 2009, he became the chairman of the board of directors of the American College of Physicians and Surgeons, a position he held until he was elected governor in 2008. In 2010, he served as chairman of The Republican National Committee. In 2011, he resigned from the RNC to run for governor of Louisiana. In 2012, he ran for and won the Republican presidential nomination for a second time. In 2014, he announced that he would not be running for re-election.
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