Sruthi Palaniappan, Youngest Indian American girl and Harvard freshman at Hillary Clinton’s DNC wants to run for office

Iowa July 30:From Cedar Rapids, Sruthi Palaniappan,is a student of the Harvard University, and is a big supporter of Clinton. Her father Palaniappan Andiappan also attended the convention as a member of credentials committee. The 18-year-old Indian-American girl, was the youngest delegate at the Democratic National Convention that took place in Philadelphia, in which Hillary Clinton was nominated as the party’s presidential candidate, becoming the first woman to be nominated by a major political party.

She has been the centre of attraction among the media here and the delegates along with a 102-year-old delegate from Arizona, Jerry Emmett, who is the oldest delegate at the convention.

In addition to being the youngest delegate, Sruthi made history on Tuesday when she was given an opportunity to represent Iowa during roll call votes.

“I am extremely thankful for the surreal opportunity to have represented the Iowa delegation as a roll call speaker and to have been a part of the historic nomination process of our next president,” she said.

Ms. Palaniappan wants to run for office and thinks that politics is the best route if one is interested in public service.

“I am pursuing this passion for politics that I have,” she told The Hindu. “I became involved in service and advocacy-related activities initially, and when the time came to be involved in the election process, I jumped right on board.

I got into the Clinton campaign, and went door-to-door canvassing in my area.

I was able to encourage people to come out and vote,” Ms. Palaniappan, a huge fan of Hillary Clinton, the first woman presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, said

Highly impressed by the electrifying speech given by President Barack Obama, Sruthi said, “the American dream is something no wall will ever contain.”

“Obama’s legacy and efforts will live on when Clinton and her vice presidential running mate Tim Kaine become the new President and Vice President of the United States,” she said.

“We really do need to unite together in order to defeat the Republican nominee (Donald Trump). If we let Donald Trump take over the presidency, really terrible things will take our county several steps back,” Sruthi was quoted as saying by the local KCRG TV.