U.S.: Indian-American tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to run for 2024 presidential elections

In a short video shared across social media on Tuesday, Indian-American tech entrepreneur, Vivek Ramaswamy, announced his decision to run for president in the 2024 presidential elections.

Taking to Twitter to share his campaign video, Ramaswamy tweeted, “We’ve celebrated our “diversity” so much that we forgot all the ways we’re really the same as Americans, bound by ideals that united a divided, headstrong group of people 250 years ago. I believe deep in my bones those ideals still exist. I’m running for President to revive them.”

We’re in the midst of a national identity crisis. Faith, patriotism & family are disappearing. We embrace one secular religion after another – from wokeism to climatism – to satisfy our deeper need for meaning. Yet we cannot even answer what it means to be an American.

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) February 22, 2023

“We’re in the midst of a national identity crisis. Faith, patriotism & family are disappearing. We embrace one secular religion after another – from wokeism to climatism – to satisfy our deeper need for meaning. Yet we cannot even answer what it means to be an American,” he added further in another tweet.

“The GOP can fill that void. E pluribus unum: from many, one. That is the dream that won the American Revolution; that reunited us after the Civil War, that won us two World Wars & the Cold War. That is the dream that still gives hope to the world. That is American exceptionalism,” the Indian-origin tech CEO added further.

The GOP can fill that void. E pluribus unum: from many, one. That is the dream that won the American Revolution; that reunited us after the Civil War, that won us two World Wars & the Cold War. That is the dream that still gives hope to the world. That is American exceptionalism.

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) February 22, 2023

Ramaswamy’s parents immigrated to the US from Vadakkencherry in Palakkad, Kerala, according to media reports.

The tech CEO founded the biopharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences, and later co-founded Strive Asset Management, where he currently serves as the Executive Chairman.

In addition to his entrepreneurial ventures, Ramaswamy, back in September 2022, published a book titled “Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence”, and in August 2021, published “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam”.

Ramaswamy now joins former South Carolina Governor and Permanent Representative to the UN,Nikki Haley, becoming one of two Indian-Americans launching thier republican bid for the 2024 elections.