NB Explains | All about Indian-American, Hirsh Vardhan Singh, who enters US presidential race

Indian-American politician from New Jersey, Hirsh Vardhan Singh, has announced his bid to the White House in a 3-minute-long video message. The 38-year-old businessman-turned-politician is seeking the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election by calling himself a “pure blood" candidate.

 

 

Singh started his campaign speech by attacking the “Big tech” and “Big Pharma” industries. “Today Americans face grave threats from the corruption of both big tech and big pharma. Which have relentlessly attacked our freedom,” Harish said in his video address.

 

“While Big Pharma has made massive profits working with the government to compel everyone to take their experimental vaccines, big tech has become the big brother who invades our privacy and has indulged in censorship of our political and contrarian viewpoints,” he added.

 

 

 

In his speech, he accused these industries of attacking the “American family values” and even went on to call former US President Donald Trump the “greatest president in his lifetime”.

 

The New Jersey politician called himself a “pure-blooded” candidate since he did not take any COVID vaccines. He recalled Democratic politicians from New Jersey have labelled him “Trump on Steroids”.

 

“Today I am the only pure-blood candidate for the president because I never gave into the COVID vaccination. Even New Jersey’s democrat politicians labelled me the ‘Trump on steroids,’” Singh asserted in his speech. “It's time to move past outdated politicians of the bygone era, I have the energy and technical know-how. To lead America to the future we deserve,” he concluded.

 

 

Born on March 13 in 1985, Hirsh Vardhan Singh is an American engineer and businessman from Atlantic City, New Jersey. The self-proclaimed “life-long Republican” ran for the office of the Governor of New Jersey in 2017.

 

According to the New Jersey Globe, Singh also ran for US Senate and Congress in 2018, U.S. Senate in 2020, and governor in 2021, but never made it out of the Republican primaries. Hirsh studied at the New Jersey Institute of Technology where he joined a group called Young Americans for Liberty.

 

According to the New Jersey Globe, Singh entered the race to be the governor of New Jersey in 2017, with a contribution of more than $1 million, from his father who works as a defence contractor. He finished third in a field of five Republican candidates, winning 9.8% of the vote. With a history of losing multiple elections, it will be interesting to see how Hirsh will fare in the race for the American presidency.