New Jersey: Ankur Vaidya has been elected as the President of the Federation of Indian Associations (Tri-State), one of the largest non-profit Indian-American organisations in the US, for the year 2014. Vaidya, 34, will be the youngest ever President of the associations. Vaidya, who hails from Gujarat, started as a volunteer in the organisation has risen to the top spot. He is from the engineering and real estate background and has been in the US over a decade.
He has been an integral part of the FIA Executive Committee since the past two years brings along a highly in depth and professional experience to the top spot of FIA. Along with Vaidya the 2014 Executive Committee that was elected includes: Anand Patel – Executive vice president; Srujal Parikh – vice president; Nishil Parikh- General Secretary; Chhavi Singh- joint Secretary and Alok Kumar – treasurer. Sanjay Amin will be immediate past president. The new officers will take charge from January 1, 2014 and will be sworn in the end of January during FIA's Republic Day Celebrations.
The 43-year-old premier Indian-American organization has been holding India Day Parade for the past 33 years in the streets of Manhattan to promote and project India in mainstream America. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York Governors, US Senators and Congressmen, Indian Ambassadors patronized the parade by taking part in the previous years.
