Kesha only came as a distant third with 18 percent of the votes.
AB Wire
Indian-Jewish-American Kesha Ram was defeated in the race for a top elected post in the US State of Vermont.
The 29-year-old lost the Democratic primary for Vermont Lt Governor to David Zuckerman who won the election on Tuesday with 45 percent of the votes.
Kesha, who is the first woman of colour to run for the State wide office in Vermont, only came as a distant third with 18 percent of the votes.
For the past three years Kesha worked as public engagement specialist for the city of Burlington and was elected to state House representatives at age of 22 to represent the University District and Hill Section of Burlington.
Ram earned her B.S. in natural resource planning and her B.A. in political science from the University of Vermont in 2008. She also completed a semester of Public Law and American Politics at American University.
Kesha Ram is the great great granddaughter of Ganga Ram, an Indian civil engineer known for building a network of health infrastructures in both Indian and Pakistan before partition.
Her father was born in Lahore but after partition the family moved to India and grew in Punjab. He came to Los Angeles for studies as student and later he met Kesha’s mother, a Jewish American and married.
Ram moved to Vermont for her further studies.