CHICAGO: India Post in its earlier pre-election dispatcheshad clearly indicated that Raja Krishnamoorthi, an 8th Congressional contestant, is heading for a victory and the last Tuesday night results vindicated IP reading. Raja trounced his two opponents by 2 to 1 margin in a Democratic primary and sailed past the winning post easily.
Raja will be facing his Republican rival Pete DiCianni – DuPage County commissioner and a Third Party candidate Bill Fraser (Independent, high school teacher). According to indications available, Raja will have a cake walk in the November 30 elections and will be representing the 8th District in the US Congress.
In a talk to this paper, Raja said that he “will fight in Congress to save the middle-class in our country, because it’s our middle-class that makes America strong.
With 100% of the precincts in the 8th District reporting election returns, Krishnamoorthi won the support of 57 percent of voters with State Sen. Mike Noland at 29 percent and Villa Park President Deb Bullwinkel with 14 percent.
Raja had all of the Chicago area major newspaper endorsements besides unequivocal support from a number of front ranking local, State and Federal politicians. He had the distinction to get all the communities united behind him on his way to winning the Democratic nomination for Congress.
“I’m proud that we ran on ideas, not on insults,” Raja said before hundreds of supporters in Schaumburg, Illinois, a northwest Chicago suburb in the heart of the 8th congressional district of Illinois. “That’s how we’ll win in November, and it’s how we’ll beat Donald Trump. And let me tell Mr. Trump something tonight: We don’t need him to make America great again.
It’s already great. We just need to make sure that America lives up to its promise – that if you work hard and play by the rules, you and your children can succeed. That’s the America I believe in. That’s the America you believe in. And, together, we’ll make sure nobody takes it away.”
A small businessman, Raja Krishnamoorthi currently serves as president of Sivananthan Labs and Episolar, Inc., small businesses that sell products in the national security and renewable energy industries. A unit of Sivananthan Laboratories, whose president is Raja Krishnamoorthi, developed cutting edge technology as part of an international mission successfully launched last month into outer space as part of ASTRO-H (also known as Hitomi), an X-ray astronomy satellite.
He is a co-founder of InSPIRE, a non-profit organization that provides training to Illinois students and veterans in solar technology, and was formerly Vice-Chairman of the Illinois Innovation Council, whose mission is to promote innovative technologies that support economic growth and job creation in Illinois.
India Post News Service
