Among the Silicon Valley figures who have put their money on Mr. Khanna – in many cases literally too – are investor Marc Andreessen, Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer, Salesforce’s Marc Benioff and Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg. Silicon Valley is not only about technologists and entrepreneurs. Ro has the backing from major labour unions and working class people this time,” said M. R. Rangaswamy, a community leader and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. Mr. Honda has always attacked Mr. Khanna for his close association with the tech industry, and this time, specifically for a contribution that he received from PayPal founder Peter Thiel. Mr. Khanna was born in Philadelphia to immigrants parents from Punjab, and his maternal grandfather Amarnath Vidyalankar was a freedom fighter and a member of Lok Sabha.

Source: The Hindu November 05, 2016 14:16 UTC