From left: Lathika Mary Thomas, Pramila Jayapal and Kamala Harris.
As U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton targets to
break the “highest glass ceiling” in the US, three Indian-Americans
figure in a list of 19 women who could make history if elected to
Congress in November 2016
In a Congress that has only 19 per cent women, over a dozen women from
both sides of the aisle could end up breaking barriers if elected in the
November polls, the popular Cosmopolitan magazine said as it released the list of the women.
The three Indian-American women who figure in the list are, Pramila
Jayapal, who is running for House of Representatives from Washington
state; Kamala Harris, who is seeking to enter the Senate from
California; and Lathika Mary Thomas, who is running for the House on a
Republican ticket from Florida.
Jayapal and Harris are from the Democratic party.
If elected, Harris would be the second woman of colour in Senate after
Carul Mosley Braun in 1992 and the first Indian-American in the Senate.
Harris, who has been endorsed by US President Barack Obama, is currently
the California Attorney-General.
Jayapal, who earned an endorsement from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders,
would be the first Indian-American woman in Congress, if she wins the
elections in November 2016
According to latest polls, both Jayapal and Harris are expected to win their respective elections.
Like Jayapal, Lathika Mary Thomas, if elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives seat from Florida, would be the first Indian-American
woman in the House..
Ami Bera from California is the only Indian-American Congressman in the
current Congress. He is among the three Indian-Americans elected to the
Congress ever.
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