| Indian-American Piyush "Bobby" Jindal coasted to victory Wednesday in his bid for a seat in the US House of Representatives, rebounding from his failed attempt last year to become governor of Louisiana. A Republican, Jindal won 78 percent of the votes cast Tuesday in his district in suburban New Orleans, according to news reports. His nearest competitor, Democrat Roy Armstrong, netted a little less than seven percent of the vote. With his resounding victory, Bobby Jindal, 33, whose parents come from the Punjab in northern India, affirmed his status as a rising star in the Republican Party. His engineer father and civil servant mother emigrated from India before his birth, and Jindal was born and raised in the Louisiana capital Baton Rouge. |