{"id":30760,"date":"2022-11-09T13:53:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T18:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/?p=30760"},"modified":"2022-11-09T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T21:02:09","slug":"aruna-miller-shri-thanedar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/aruna-miller-shri-thanedar\/","title":{"rendered":"Among Indian Americans, Aruna Miller and Shri Thanedar Make Historic Wins in US Midterm Elections 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
The US midterm elections 2022 results include two historic wins for the Indian American community that represents itself in the corridor of power and politics. Aruna Miller and Shri Thanedar scripted history, with an overwhelming support to their campaigns and a landslide victory in the 2022 midterms. Aruna has a history of undertaking several welfare initiatives for the people of Maryland, whereas the Black community of Michigan voted Shri Thanedar to the US House of Representatives as their voice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Aruna Miller, the first Indian American Lieutenant Governor of Maryland<\/strong><\/h3>\n
One of the historic wins in the US midterm polls 2022 belongs to Aruna Miller who is the first South Asian and the first Indian American to be elected as Lieutenant Governor of Maryland<\/strong>. The 57-year-old Democrat, a civil engineer by profession, was born in Hyderabad, India. Her parents immigrated to New York from the undivided Andhra Pradesh in 1972 when she was only 7. Her father was a mechanical engineer at IBM. Aruna majored in civil engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n
Maryland\u2019s new lieutenant governor Aruna Miller is now the running mate of Maryland\u2019s first Black governor, Wes Moore. Naturalized as a US citizen in 2000, she was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2010, and she represented the 15th<\/sup> District in Montgomery County for eight years. During her tenure in the House of Delegates, she espoused several causes, such as family welfare, domestic violence check, marriage equality, gun purchase control, and renewable energy in the state. She was also vocal about the need to increase minimum wages.<\/p>\n
While in the Maryland House of Delegates, she went on to exclude underage smokers from the users of e-cigarettes, implement GPS tracking of domestic abusers<\/strong>, and establish a fund for rape crisis centers in the state. In 2018, she backed the need of studying and promoting alternative treatments to help Americans tide over the \u2018opioid\u2019 crisis. She also brought a bill pushing high schools to introduce computer science in their curriculum for earlier grades. She had offered her service as a transportation engineer to local governments in California and Virginia before she relocated to Maryland in 1990.<\/p>\n
After the US midterm results were announced, Indian American Aruna Miller tweeted,<\/strong> \u201cMaryland, you showed the nation what a small but mighty state do when democracy is on the ballot. You chose unity over division, expanding rights over restricting rights, and hope over fear. Ever since I came to this country, I have never stopped being excited for the promise of America. I will never stop fighting to make sure that promise is available to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shri Thanedar joins other Indian Americans in House of Representatives\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n