Indian candidates in 2024 US Presidental Elections (img: Facebook)

Scientist and entrepreneur, Shiva Ayyadurai has become the fourth Indian-American to announce his bid as an independent candidate for the 2024 US presidential election.

Fourth Indian-American’s bid to America’s top post

Announcing his campaign bid recently, the 59-year-old Mumbai-born said he wants to serve America, ‘beyond left and right’ to deliver solutions people need and deserve.

”I am running for president of the United States of America. We stand at the crossroads where we can either head into a Golden Age or into the Darkness... America becomes great when innovators, entrepreneurs, working people with skills and those committed to using common sense and reason run this country,” Ayyadurai said. 

Shiva Ayyadurai’s American dream further expands to the White House

Ayyadurai left India in 1970 and came to live the American dream along with his parents and settled in Paterson, New Jersey. 

The Indian-American stated on his campaign website that "I left the caste system of India in 1970 where we were considered low caste ‘Untouchables’ and ‘Deplorables’.”

As claimed by his website, he is a Fulbright Scholar with four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Ayyadurai had also expressed interest in taking up the position of Twitter CEO last year.

According to his campaign website, he has started seven hi-tech companies including EchoMail, CytoSolve and Systems Health and claims to have ‘invented email’ when he was just 14-years-old.

He is currently the Founder and CEO of CytoSolve, Inc, which is finding cures for major diseases from pancreatic cancer to Alzheimer’s.

A horde of Indian-Americans in 2024 US Presidential Elections

Ayyadurai's announcement comes right after Indian-American aerospace engineer Hirsh Vardhan Singh threw his hat in the ring for the Republican nomination after former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.

(Source: IANS)

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