Malerkotla, October 23
Though Louisiana's Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal secured a landslide win pipping nine contestants to get re-elected for a second four-year term, his victory failed to impress anybody at his native place in Malerkotla.
After the news of the second consecutive win spread here, no special happiness could be seen among Bobby Jindal’s relatives. They said they hardly had anything to celebrate as neither had Bobby ever visited Malerkotla, nor had he made any phone call to them in the past.
Bobby Jindal's father Amar Chand Jindal had migrated to America in 1972, just a few months before his son was born. Bobby’s mother Raj Rani had been sent by the Indian government for higher studies to the US. While Amar Chand decided to settle in the US, his brothers stayed back here. They rue that the Louisiana Governor had never even tried to contact them, a reason they today “decided not to hold any kind of celebration over his latest victory”.
Vijay Luxmi, real aunt of Bobby Jindal, claimed he had failed to keep his promise of visiting Malerkotla that he made after his first victory as Governor. “Later, he even stopped attending our calls,” she said. While the Jindal family originally hailed from Khanpur village near here, almost all his close relatives shifted to Malerkotla over the years.
When Bobby Jindal’s cousins Bhagwant and Narinder weer contacted at their house, they refused to talk to mediapersons. Notably, a wave of joy had swept the town when the news of the election of Bobby Jindal reached here in 2004. Sweets were distributed by his relatives at their houses then.
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