New Delhi: Ameya Pawar has become the first Indian-American to be elected to Chicago City Council. He has been elected as the alderman for the 47th Ward on Chicago's North Side.
Thirty year old Pawar won with 50 per cent of the vote. Pawar has committed to donate US$ 50,000 of his salary to address the city's deficit or offer community grants, and has promised to have an elected ward council to guide his actions at City Hall.
Pawar said, "We have a lot of issues that we have to work through. But it's what you do in the private sector, non-profit sector when you have problems or issues, you bring in new eyes to a set of problems and you work on them together."
Pawar, the son of Indian immigrants, said he stands on the shoulders of other prominent Indian Americans as well as his parents and grandparents. He is an emergency preparedness expert working on his third master's degree.
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