Lone Indian American lawmaker Ami-Bera stages comeback win

Washington, Nov 20: Amiresh 'Ami' Bera, the lone Indian American lawmaker in the US House of Representatives, repeated history as he edged out his Republican opponent in a California race two weeks after the elections. Bera, who had won in a similar fashion in 2012, trailed Republican Doug Ose by more than 3,000 votes at the close of election night and steadily closed the gap as election officials tallied tens of thousands of remaining ballots. He Wednesday led Doug, who had served in Congress from 1999 to 2005, by 1,432 votes with nearly all ballots counted in the seat covering suburban Sacramento county, media reported. Bera, the third Indian American House member after Dalip Singh Saund and current Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, had ousted then sitting Republican House member Dan Lungren in 2012. "It's been my honour serving this community as a doctor for the last 19 years and I am grateful I will have the opportunity to continue serving as the representative for California's 7th Congressional District in Congress," Bera said in a statement.