Click to play videoNew Delhi: Piyush Bobby Jindal has been sworn in as the 55th Governor of Louisiana in the US.
Jindal is the first Indian-American to be elected to such a high political post in the United States.
Pascal Calogero, Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, administered the oath to the Republican.
Jindal is Louisiana's first immigrant governor and also the youngest governor of the southern state. He was elected to Congress in 2004, and re-elected to a second term in November 2006.
Jindal had pegged his campaign on a promise to turn around Louisiana’s corrupt image and had sworn to make it “the gold standard for ethics”.
''We have the opportunity – born of tragedy but embraced still the same – to make right decades of failure in government,'' Jindal had said in his inaugural speech, in a reference to the devastating 2005 hurricanes, Katrina and Rita.
Jindal, 36, a conservative Republican, succeeds Democrat Kathleen Blanco, who had defeated him four years earlier. He was made the state’s health secretary in 1996 at the age of 24.
With inputs from UNI
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